High-Speed Marine Craft
One Hundred Knots at Sea

This book details the effort to build a large ship capable of traveling at 100 knots, from historical and technical perspectives.

Peter J. Mantle (Author)

9781107090415, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 December 2015

656 pages, 502 b/w illus. 44 tables
26.1 x 18.5 x 3.8 cm, 1.28 kg

This book details the efforts to build a large naval vessel capable of traveling at one hundred knots. It is the first book to summarize this extensive work from historical and technical perspectives. It explores the unique principles and challenges in the design of high-speed marine craft. This volume explores different hull form concepts, requiring an understanding of the four forces affecting the lift and the drag of the craft. The four forces covered are hydrostatic (buoyancy), hydro-dynamic, aerostatic, and aerodynamic. This text will appeal to naval researchers, architects, graduate students and historians, as well as others generally interested in naval architecture and propulsion.

1. The goal of one hundred knots
2. History of high speed development
3. The first surface effect ship
4. History of MARAD 'large surface effect ship' program
5. History of US Navy 'large surface effect ship' program
6. SES-100A and SES-100B test craft and the 'three thousand ton SES'
7. Economic considerations
8. Technical considerations
9. Navy military operations considerations
10. The Advanced Naval Vehicles Concepts Evaluation (ANVCE) project
11. Aerodynamic air cushion craft
12. Lessons learned and where to next?

Subject Areas: Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ], Hydraulics & pneumatics [TGMF2], Aerodynamics [TGMF1], Dynamics & statics [PHDT], Fluid mechanics [PHDF]