Ships that serve us - Tugs and service
craft
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ou will see them in every sizeable port; smart, businesslike
small ships, low in the water and surging out to a large
inbound ship. Tugs represent power for pushing and
pulling, an engine wi |
Sea View - Getting traffic off
the roads
I
t just doesn't seem to be sensible. Consider the traffic that races
up and down the major trunk highways up and down the US
east and west coast seaboards. It is mostly nose to tail , several
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Questions of Shipping - Is the weather at sea getting
worse?
T
here is a lot of worry about the weather today. Perhaps caused by
global warming or just "climate change", there seems to be much
more violent weather about. At sea, and on the coast, there seem |
Maritime Matters - Mapping a maritime career
C
areer "mapping", in which a plan is worked out which indicates
where a young person wishes to be at every stage of his or her career,
is a fashionable concept. Certainly it is a good deal more s |
Sea View -
Maritime Power
Projection
T
wo-thirds of the earth's surface is composed of salt water ,
which for many represents an alien and hostile
environment of questionable utility and potential danger.
But throughout history, |
Ships that serve us
Floating cranes
F
loating cranes are found in most sizeable ports and are an essential
element in the port's cargo handling equipment. They have a special
role in loading and unloading specially heavy or awkward |
Maritime Matters -
Building the world's
ships
M
odern shipbuilding is large-scale production
engineering; a complex process in which computer-
generated designs are translated into steel, and
components sourced from all over the world are |
Questions of Shipping
How do we dispose of
offshore structures?
N
o doubt about it, one of the wonders of the maritime world in the
last quarter of the 20th century was the winning of oil and gas from
below the seas offshore. Amazing structures were built to s |
Maritime Matters - Building the world's
ships
M
odern shipbuilding is large-scale production
engineering; a complex process in which computer-
generated designs are translated into steel, and
components sourced from all over the world are |
Sea View - Different underwater
shapes
T
he underwater shape of a ship is crucial for a number of
reasons, with seakeeping, shiphandling, fuel efficiency and
cargo capacity all having a bearing on the final underwater
form, which i |
Ships that serve us -
Compressed natural
gas - a clean future fuel
M
ethane, readily available in so many parts of the world, is widely
recognised as a "fuel of the future" and the virtual doubling of the
fleet of ships designed to carry Liquefied Natural Gas (LN |
Questions of Shipping -
Can we stop ships
rusting?
C
orrosion takes place whenever unprotected steel is exposed to the air.
In the salt-laden atmosphere of a ship at sea this corrosion takes place
with considerable speed. To see corrosion actually |
Maritime Matters -
How ports work - Ro-Ro terminals
A
roll-on, roll-off ship , (it will be recalled from Seascapes
Nos.8 and 32) is a ship which provides horizontal means
of access for wheeled and other mobile cargo, loaded or
discharged over a |
Sea View -
Charter parties
explained
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charter party is a contract, arranged usually by a
shipbroker, between a shipper of goods, and the owner of a
ship upon which the goods are to be carried. It is legally
binding, internationa |
Ships that serve us -
Making tugs safer - the
Carrousel
O
perating a big ship in confined waters very often requires the use of
harbour tugs.
They are able to move enormous ships into tight spaces at very low speeds, at which
the ship's own rudder |
Questions of Shipping -
Who regulate ships?
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very ship must fly the flag of the country in which she is registered and
carry the name of her port of registry upon the stern. It is the vessel's most
visible identity. Ships are built and ope |
