Second edition. x, 166pp, illustrated with black and white photographs and diagrams. Laminated cream paper-covered boards. 8vo. Lightly bumped spine ends, lender's shelf number label on spine, corners lightly rubbed. Top text block edge tanning, fore edge starting to tan. Endpapers lightly tanned. Lender's stamps, security device and markings on endpapers and prelims else internally a clean, neat, bright and tight volume.
Second edition with two further sections on the behaviour of ships in waves and the effects of transient vibration which did not appear in the first edition of this work.
