MARAD Guideline Specifications for Merchant Ship Construction and Executive Summary, 1995

GUIDELINE SPECIFICATIONS AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 

These documents are guideline metric specifications intended to provide guidance to the maritime industry for the preparation of specifications for building competitive commercial ships in the U.S. for domestic or export markets.  These documents replace all previous editions of the Maritime Administration Standard Specifications for Merchant Ship Construction.  Each contain a total of 73 sections; the first 29 sections comprise the Hull Sections, and the remaining 44 sections comprise the Machinery Sections.  

The Executive Summary contains 132 pages, and the Guideline Specifications contains 461 pages. Both documents can be downloaded
by following these steps: 

1. double click on the document name you want; save it to your file or your disk;
   click on the "Start" button (bottom left corner of computer screen) and click on
   "Run";

2. click on the "Browse" button to locate where the document has been saved
   and click "Open";

3. click "OK" and files will "explode" from the "zipped" format;

4. open Microsoft Word and go to where you saved the document (each Section
   of the document is a separate file, i.e., Execsumm.0001, Sect0001, etc.); and

5. proceed by opening any section you need.

You may also order these documents in hard copy by contacting
Sharon Nielsen via e-mail at sharon.nielsen@dot.gov.