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Q4. A box shaped vessel is 100 m long, 20 m wide and floats at a draught of 5 m.

Due to a collision, a full width compartment 25 m long situated at midships, is bilged.

Calculate EACH of the following using the  method:

(a) The permeability of the compartment if the final draught in the bilged condition is 5.85 m. (4)

(b) The change in transverse metacentric height due to bilging this compartment. (12)