ILLUSTRATED FUNDAMENTALS OF MARINE ENGINEERING: A Visual Guide to Ship Propulsion, Auxiliary Machinery, Shipboard Systems, and Watchkeeping Practice for Cadets and Practicing Engineers - Softcover

Vireth, Dr. Bastian K.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798191187044

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

YOUR CHIEF ENGINEER IS WAITING FOR AN ANSWER. DO YOU HAVE IT?

An alarm doesn't wait for you to cross-reference four different textbooks. Neither does an examiner, a chief engineer at 3 a.m., or a scavenge fire that started because a number on a gauge meant nothing to the person reading it.

Most marine engineering education splits the subject into disconnected pieces — thermodynamics in one book, electrotechnology in another, shipboard practice in a third — and leaves you to somehow weld it all together under pressure, on watch, when it's already too late to get it wrong.

Illustrated Fundamentals of Marine Engineering is the fix: one complete, richly illustrated volume that follows the exact path energy takes through a real ship — engine to shaft to propeller to the officer standing watch — so you learn the system, not just the syllabus.

Built differently from every other marine engineering reference:

• One book, not a shelf of them. Sixteen chapters take you from thermodynamics and naval architecture through diesel engines, steam and turbine plant, shafting, electrical systems, pumps, refrigeration, and watchkeeping — as one connected discipline, not four separate texts you have to reconcile yourself.
• Every worked example shows every step. No "it can be shown that." Costs are given in real dollars, because that's the language decisions get made in on a real ship.
• You're trained to catch mistakes before they cost you. Select worked examples hide a deliberate error — an impossible efficiency, a heat balance that won't close — so you build the instinct that separates a competent engineer from a calculator.
• Full reasoning, not just answers. Every end-of-chapter practice problem comes with a complete worked solution, including the judgement calls, not just a final number.
• Figures live exactly where you need them — in the text, at the point of relevance, not buried in an appendix.

Who this book is for:

• Marine engineering cadets preparing for watchkeeping certification
• Working marine engineers who want the theory behind procedures they already follow
• Maritime academy students tired of stitching together separate textbooks for one subject
• Anyone studying for a Certificate of Competency who needs worked reasoning, not just final answers

Stop learning the ship in pieces. Start understanding how it actually works, end to end.

Scroll up and get your copy of Illustrated Fundamentals of Marine Engineering today.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798191187044
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 427