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Q4. A box shaped vessel is 100 m long, 12 m wide and floats at an even keel draught of 5 m in water of density 1025 kg/m³ with a KG of 3.98 m.

A full width empty compartment at the forward end of the vessel is 10 m long and has a watertight flat 2.8 m above the keel.

This end compartment is now bilged below the flat only.

Calculate the new end draughts of the vessel. (16)

Note: The KB in the bilged condition may be taken as half the new mean draught.