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This is the second part of the paper published in Polish Maritime Research no. 2/2005,dealing with the calculation problem of righting arms of the free-floating ship, i.e. longitu-dinally balanced at any heel angle. In such case the righting arms are ambiguous as theydepend on a way the heeling moment acts. Two cases were considered : when the heelingmoment is parallel to the ship plane of symmetry, and the case when it performs the leastwork, i.e. when the moment is parallel to the main axis of ship waterline. It was demon-strated that angular translations (heel and trim) are then the Euler angles associated witha relevant reference axis. Some cases of the incorrect defining and using of those angles in today designpractice were indicated. The most important features of the curve of righting arms of free-floating shipwere demonstrated