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A paper by Dr. Guilloton on his method of calculating the wave-making resistance of ships was presented at the Fall meeting of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in 1951, in conjunction with the Sixth International Towing Tank Conference. This paper is published in Volume 59 of the Society's Transactions. It became apparent to the Panel on Analytical Ship Wave Relations of the Society's Hydrodynamics Committee that this was an important paper and that the methods proposed by Dr. Guilloton should be tested by applying them to practical ship forms. The Panel, therefore, recommended that work be carried out to this end. An investigation was accordingly started at the Experimental Towing Tank of the Stevens Institute of Technology under Society sponsorship and later continued under sponsorship of the Office of Naval Research. Publication of the results of the investigation has been authorized by the Technical and Research Committees of the Society with the permission of the Office of Naval Research.