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Q4. For a box shaped barge 100 m in length, 15 m breadth, floating at an even keel draught of 8 m in sea water Of density 1025 kg/m³, the KG is 5 m.

A full breadth midship compartment 10 m long is divided by a centretine watertight longitudinal bulkhead to form two equal compartments. One of the compartments is bilged. The permeability of the flooded compartment is 85% . Calculate the angle of heel for the barge. (16)