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Q4. A ship of displacement 14000 tonne has a length 130 m, breadth 17 m, and even keel draught of 6.11 m in sea water of density 1025 kg/m³. The area of the waterplane is 1600 m² and the second moment of area of the waterplane about a transverse axis through midships is 1.25 × 106 m4 with the LCF at midships.

The ship has a full depth empty rectangular compartment of length 13 m and breadth 11 m. The centre of the compartment is on the centreline of the ship 30 m forward of midships.

Calculate the end draughts after the compartment is bilged.  (16)

Note: For the purposes of calculating the MCT1cm it can be assumed that GML = BML