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Q4. A box shaped Vessel is 80 m long, 12 m wide and floats at a draught of 4 m.  A full width midship Compartment 15m tong is bilged. This results in the draught increasing to 4.75 m.

Calculate EACH of the following, using the lost buoyancy method:

(a) the permeability of the compartment; (4)

(b) the Change in metacentric height due to bilging the compartments. (12)