Vessel Stability measures the ship’s uprightness or how it remains at water level. Now, in a broad sense, this uprightness can be conceived from two perspectives, and ship stability can be described in two ways: i) longitudinal and ii) Transverse stability.
Transverse stability is the vessel’s tendency to remain upright when viewed in a longitudinal direction or when looking at the vessel from its fore or aft. Thus, we look at the vessel’s cross-section or faceward view.
Now, when the vessel...