The single point mooring system. A single anchor leg mooring system consists of an anchoring structure with built-in buoyancy at or near the water surface and is anchored to the seabed by an articulated connection.

Means of training the crew in the free-fall release procedure of free-fall lifeboats and in verifying the satisfactory function of the free-fall release system without allowing the lifeboat to fall into the sea.

Podded propulsion unit developed by Siemens and Schottel.

Usually aluminium panels used to support palletized cargo in order to reduce damage.

Cargo handling equipment used on reefer ships and paper carriers.

An air-cushion vehicle whose walls extending along the sides are permanently immersed hard structures.

When a ship is sailing, the propeller blades bite more in their lowermost position than in their uppermost position.

Azipod is the electrically driven propulsor with an AC motor incorporated in a streamlined azimuthing pod unit directly driving a fixed-pitch propeller. The motor is controlled by a frequency converter, which produces...

Sheets of canvas or similar material, erected above weather decks to provide shade and shelter.

Description of the situation when the anchor has just been lifted from the seabed.

In general, average affairs adjusters are entrusted with the task of apportioning the loss and expenditure over the parties interested in the maritime venture and to determine which expenses are to be regarded as average or general average.

1. This is the marine insurance term for a partial loss. Particular charges are not to be included when calculating average. 2. The numerical result obtained by dividing the sum of two or more quantities by the number of quantities.

The WÄRTSILÄ® Auxpac is a generating set designed for auxiliary power generation in commercial type vessels. It is a pre-commissioned standard package that ensures the availability of electrical power in sufficient quantity as and when it is needed.

Propulsion system that consists of a medium-speed diesel engine, a reduction gear with Power Take In (PTI) drive, a shaft generator, and CP propeller. In normal operation at sea the CP propeller is driven...

A term applied collectively to all machinery and apparatus forming the nonpropulsive equipment of a ship.

A boiler that supplies steam for essential auxiliary purposes but not for main propulsion.

On two-stroke diesels, electrically-driven auxiliary blowers are usually provided because the exhaust gas-driven turbo-charger cannot provide enough air at low engine speed. Auxiliary blowers are internal parts of the main engine.

Unconventional automatic mooring systems designed to reduce harbour time for ferries. The mooring operation is controlled automatically from the wheelhouse reducing personnel requirements. See also IRONSAILOR.

Automatic radar plotting aids are essentially utilized to improve the standard of collision avoidance at sea. Primarily designed as anti-collision radar, the ARPA technology removed the chore of plotting targets...

Automatic control system used for automatic navigation. The system can sense the difference between the ordered course of the ship and the actual course and will cause the rudder to move to an angle proportional to this error.