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Volume 15, number 4, November 2011. Contents include general features and articles on Developing the Hullform's of Yesterday's Timber Vessels, and Design and Build of Composite Patrol Boats.

Immediately after the Second World War, the wartime experience of British warship designers was summarised in a series of papers read before the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, and published in 1947. These papers were first-hand accounts by the people directly responsible for the new ship types and innovative designs produced in response to the pressures of war, and therefore contained invaluable information on the main aspects of the British shipbuilding effort. This book reprints those articles with the original illustrations.

This paper outlines the progress achieved and the experience gained during the first series of refits of the Oberon class submarines (introduced in 1967 to the Royal Australian Navy). Cockatoo Island Dockyard is the place of refit, and the refit and support of the submarines has been the principal role of the dockyard. A description is given of the current programme of modernisation of submarine weapons systems which will place Australia's submarines amongst the best equipped conventional submarines in the world.

Volume 3 which is the Discussions volume from three-day international symposium on 'Naval Submarines 3', held 13th - 15th May, 1991 in London. Contains discussion of the papers contained in Volumes 1 and 2 for the symposium.

'SURV IV - Surveillance Pilot & Rescue Craft for the 21st Century' - two-day international conference, 13-14 May 1997, Gothenburg Sweden. Proceedings volume. Contains 18 papers within following sections: Search and rescue (S A R craft, 23m rescue cruiser, Danish rescue vessels, fast rescue vessels), Design and hydrodynamics (safety evaluation in design of lifeboats, dynamic roll stability for high speed mono hull craft), Pilot and patrol craft (the FRCV hull form, new swath generation of pilot system and sea trials on limits of fast pilot vessel MS Voyager) and Machinery (propulsion systems and plants).

Proceedings from two-day international symposium 'Warship '99: Naval Submarines 6', held 14-16 June 1999, in London. Papers within nine sessions: 1. Design (Soviet and Russian attack submarines), 2. Signatures (submarine acoustic target strength modelling, self noise monitoring system, 240 kW thermoelectric water chiller), 3. Senors and Data Management (non-hull penetrating masts and periscopes, Magnum: a new concept for submarine weapon handling and discharge, Data fusion and operability, 4. Design and Procurement (Royal Navy Astute class SSN, DCN Kockums, 5. Control and Manoeuvring (submarines, tab-assisted control surface), 6. Propulsion and AIP (submarine propulsion, fuel cell systems, AIP system tests, AIP selection), 7. Life Support (risk assessment of leakage from submarine chilled water plant, medical consequences in prolonged submerged patrol, 8. Emergency and Rescue (Submarine salvage systems, Recovery procedure in case of flooding, 9. Future Design (Asymmetric impacts of evolving SSK technologies on future naval deployments, The KAPPA project, BLC techniques usage in underwater shipbuilding, A foam sandwich submarine hull - Dera 'Novel Hull Model No. 1')