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Large Ships
A ship is commonly defined as having a bow (front) and stern (back), and is built for ocean travel for the purpose of commercial or military transport. Ocean liners, container ships, and destroyers are classified as ships.
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Can vector method be used to calculate ship floating condition and stability?
In theory, yes. But in practice there are likely to be far too many variables to do the calculations in a meaningful way.
What work does a crew member do on a submarine?
To cite just a few examples, a sonarman on watch will have the headset on to listen for other vessels, while the quartermaster will be hovering over a chart. Machinist mates and electricians might be in the engineering spaces making the vessel go, and this according to the orders of the officer of the watch.
AnswerWhatever His / Her Military Occupational Specialty is, plus whatever they are told to do by a Superior. Fire three...There are a number of different ratings for enlisted crew members on a submarine. Some are:• Electronics Technician (Submarines)
• Fire Control Technician (Submarines)
• Machinist's Mate (Submarines)
• Mess Management Specialist (Submarines)
• Missile Technician (Submarines)
• Storekeeper (Submarines)
• Sonar Technician (Submarines)
• Yeoman (Submarines)
Most crew members have a specialty, or rating, such as Missile Technician, and that defines his primary duties while aboard.
And again....
While everyone, including the officers, have primary jobs that they are assigned; they also will work other jobs as necessary to support the watch stations. The submarine works on a 24 hour day while the watch rotations work on an 18 hour day. 6 hours on watch, 6 hours off watch, and 6 hours down time. On watch you are assigned a watch you must do until properly relieved by the next watch rotation. On your off watch you must perform your usual duties assigned by your rate. A yeoman may stand planes and helms watch, or sonar watch, but then he still has to go do his yeoman office duties after watch before he can get some sleep in his down time. An ST, FT, ET, and other technical rates will conduct maintenance and repairs of ships equipment. MM's maintain valves, the Diesel, and other mechanical systems forward of the reactor, and the long list of nuclear rates will maintain the reactor and supporting equipment aft of the reactor space including making water for the crew. If a submariner is unqualified for any watches then he normally just cleans and cleans and cleans and cleans until he is qualified and therefore useful as a submariner. If a submariner is lucky, he gets to watch a little TV before he has to go to sleep. The down time is time used to get sleep, do laundry, shower, etc. The only rates that are not on a 18 hour schedule are the Ship's CO, XO, and cooks. They all work on a 12on/12off schedule. Of course the captain sleeps within feet of the control room and is never off duty. He just tries to get a few hours sleep at night when he can. Like most submariners, he gets little to no sleep.
When did they stop making wooden ships?
They haven't stopped yet. However, the beginning of the end for wooden ships was the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac during the US Civil War. Although they were iron-clad wooden ships, the advantage of metal warships was apparent when bullets and cannon balls bounced off of them. There were many technological advances during the last quarter of the 19th century and by the end of the century no major country was building wooden warships.
What is the length of Titanic?
883 feet (269 m)
Tonnage:
46,328 GRTDisplacement:52,310 tonsLength:882 ft 6 in (269.0 m)Beam:92 ft 0 in (28.0 m)Height:175 ft (53.3 m) (keel to top of funnels)Draught:34 ft 7 in (10.5 m)Depth:64 ft 6 in (19.7 m)
What is the difference between a barge and a ship?
A barge is a large sized boat having a flat bottom and normally it does not have any propelling mechanism of its own (sometimes it may have it) so is towed by other machine propelled boats or tugs.
A ship is having general used: for transporting, shipping, etc. It also has many kind of size and capacity
Exactly the same way that tiny ones do ... by displacing
an amount of water that weighs as much as they do.
What kind of ship has a runway on it?
It is the aircraft carrier that has a runway called a flight deck.
What does 6 short blast of a barge horn mean when boating?
Usually the tug towing the barge will sound it's horn or whistle. Most barges are unmanned.
5 or more short blasts of the ships whistle is the danger signal. If you hear this while boating you are likely in the way or crossing the path of the tug and tow, and there is risk of collision. Tugs with tows are much less maneuverable than a small boat and usually must stay in the dredged navigation channel.
What are the features of a ship?
body (or hull)
method of steering (wheel or tiller)
method of power (engine, motor, or sails)
it SHOULD float
What could you do on Titanic if you were third class?
Hang in rooms or diners, and be on deck when 1st and 2nd class is not around. Being ordered around by loud stewards. If you're a man, you share a cabin with some men who don't speak english. Mothers usually share theirs with their children and I don't know where the babies sleep in 3rd class. If the ship was sinking and if you were an immigrant it would be impossible [if you were a woman or child] to get into the lifeboat.
What was sir ernest shacklton ship called?
Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship was called the Endurance. It was famously used during his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition from 1914 to 1917. The Endurance became trapped in pack ice in the Weddell Sea, leading to a harrowing survival story after Shackleton and his crew were forced to make a dramatic escape. The ship was ultimately lost to the ice but has since been discovered in 2022.
Many modern large ships use underwater wings for stabilization. During rough seas, wings will fold out to the side to keep the ship from swaying side to side. The wings are retracted when not needed in order to reduce the space needed in port as well as reducing drag in the water during calm seas. Tourist cruise liners are the most common ships with these underwater stabilizing wings.
How many ropes were there on an 17th century sailing ship?
In Frank Worsley's First Voyage, he is asked this by his Bosun, and for the good ship Wairoa, which is shown as a three-masted square-rigged ship, the answers follow.
There were only 9 actually called 'ropes', (p.77), but in total there were some 240 halyards, tacks, sheets, buntlines, downhauls, outhauls, spilling-lines, leach-lines, clewlines, reef tackles, bowlines, guys and clewgarnets.
And a few more, and the Bosun finished his instruction tour with "Remember them for tomorrow."
The next day the Bosun conducted a tour but after the first four named correctly, the fifth in error earned Frank a hard slap with a rope end round the buttocks, which as he points out, at the end of the tour he still did not feel like sitting down.
This would have been about 1890. Frank is better known for his work on Shackleton's Endurance, and for his superb navigation of the 22 foot James Caird across some 800 miles of the Antarctic Ocean to Elephant island, and subsequently to South Georgia, where they walked for 36 hours across that island to raise a rescue.
Where located on a ship is the muster station?
The muster station has a different meeting place for all crew as well as passengers on cruise ships. The engineering department might meet on the port (left) side astern (the rear), while the navigation department would meet all together in a different location. On cruise ships with passengers, the muster station is as a rule numbered and the crew in charge will have a master list of all the passengers assigned to that numbered muster station.
How many miles per gallon does a cargo ship use?
I'm not sure but I do know that it is more like gallons per mile. But due to the immense amount of cargo it is still an inexpensive way to transport goods.
Usually the consumption is given in barrels or tons pr day, because the consumption is very dependent on the vessels speed.
The ship is box that is never symmetrical about its central axis as built
Also due to various drafts tythe waterplane in real differs from theoretical waterplane
Hence the 6 points drafts ,read at stem, midship and aft ,are first corrected to Length between perpendicuar , then list and trim , brionging the mean hydrostatic draft very close to tabular draft of designed ship
mere mean drafts could indicate higher submergence due to sag ( loaded heavy in middle ) or hog( loaded heavier in end holds)
Ropes and springs. Springs are usually wire hawsers which face inwards and the lines which usually ropes extend away from the ship.
