Since the advent of ships, naval architecture has evolved and become complex over time. From the primitive era, before aviation and mechanical vehicular traffic, we had wooden-hull ships driven by sails or hand oars. Now, we have advanced vessels relying on diesel-electric or nuclear propulsion, and sometimes autonomically controlled, thanks to the age of cutting-edge computation and digital technologies.
In a basic sense, the areas of naval architecture chiefly deal with 5...