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A Message from the President Advisory Public Service

Yearbook of the 1998 Annual Meeting New Fellows

Forthcoming Events Advertisers' Index Section News

Updated Sections Meeting Schedule T&R Newsletter

Buying the Boat—Choosing a Ship for the Sealift Conversion Program

by lan Busch

A New Preservation Protocol for Seawater Ballast Tanks in Naval Applications

by Miles Kikuta

Experimental Results for Bending and Buckling of Rectangular Orthotropic Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Plate Structures

by J.C. Roberts and G.J. White

Superstructure Effectiveness in the Preliminary A s s e s s m e n t of the Hull Behavior

by Michael D.A. Mackney and Carl T.F.^Ross

T R I C A T High Speed Ferry—Redesign for the U.S. Market by William A. Wood and John A. Hunter

The Future of Minimal Manning and Its Effects on the Acquisition and Life Cycle C o s t s of Major Coast Guard Cutters

by Matthew A. Green

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Professional Engineer Licensure Update 1999 Annual Meeting Information

Committee Chairs for 1999 Advisory Public Service Advertisers' Index Forthcoming Events Section Activities T&R Newsletter

Shaping Ship Safety: The F a c e of the Future by Dracos Vassalos

Shaft Alignment Using Strain G a g e s : C a s e Studies by Bruce Cowper, Al DaCosta, and Stephen Bobyn

S Q I S : A Framework for the Development and Implementation of an Industry-wide Ship Quality Information System

by Henry P. Reeve and Robert G. Bea

Preliminary Ship Design Using One- and Two-Dimensional Models by Michael D.A. Mackney and Car! T.F. Ross

Features of the Wakes of Partly Immersed Wheels by Keith Alexander

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iii SNAME and RINA Reciprocal Agreement xi Strategic Planning Committee Report xvii S T G Celebration

xviii Advisory Public Service XX Forthcoming Events xxiii New Fellows

xxvii Section Activities xxxii Advertisers' Index

127 Deveiopment of a Diesel Engine Reliability Database ( D E R E L ) for the U.S. Coast Guard

by N.A. Moore and A.N. Perakis

143 Dynamic Analysis of a Semisubmersible-type Bucket Ladder Dredge

by Arcandra, Robert E. Randall, and Moo H. Kim

157 Rudder/Fin Roll Stabilization of the U S C G WMEC 901 C l a s s Vessel by Jerrold N. Sgobbo and Michael G. Parsons

171 An Approximate Method for Intact Stability of Fishing V e s s e l s by Hüseyin Yilmaz and Abdi Kükner

175 Distributed Intelligent Navigation Systems by Martha Grabowski

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Millennium P a c k a g e xxii New Fellows xxvi P . E . Update xxvii S N A M E Strategic Planning xxx

Before and Beyond 2000

A Practical Formal Safety A s s e s s m e n t S y s t e m for the Marine Design Environment

by C F . Cain, R.W. Birmingham, P. Sen, and R.M. Cripps

Subdivision of R O / R O S h i p s for E n h a n c e d Safety in the Damaged Condition

by Maciej Pawlowski

Damage Length Predictor for High-Speed Craft

by Steven P. McGee, Armin Troesch, and Nicl<olas Vlahopoulos

S e a Spectra Revisited

by Walter H. Michel

D i s c u s s i o n on Kitamura: "Comparative Study on Collision R e s i s t a n c e of Side Structure"

by Gerhard Woisin

T h e Harmonization of Polar Shipping Requirements

by Andrew Kendrick

Optimized Alignment of a U S C G Polar C l a s s Icebreaker Wing Shaft Using a Distributed Bearing Finite-Element Model

by John D. Reeves and Nicholas Vlahopoulos

The Prediction, Measurement, and A n a l y s i s of Wake W a s h from Marine V e s s e l s

by Stan Stumbo, Kenneth Fox, Frank Dvorak, and Larry Elliot