Handbook of Ship Calculations, Construction and Operation: A Book of Reference for Shipowners, Ship Officers, Ship and Engine Draughtsmen, Marine Engineers, and Others Engaged in the Building and Operating of Ships |
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Common terms and phrases
amperes angle barrels beam bilge block boat boiler bottom bulkhead bunkers buoyancy capacity cargo carried cast center of buoyancy center of gravity charter circuit coal compartment compression condenser copper cubic foot curve cylinder D max davits depth diameter Diesel discharge displacement distance draft electric engine room factor of safety feed water fitted Flange frames freeboard fuel gallons Gauge gear grain heat horse power hour hull installed insured keel knots length lifeboats Lloyd's load machinery Marine metacenter metacentric height moment of inertia motor multiply passengers pipe piston port pound pressure propeller pump revolutions per minute riveted rope rudder rules screw shaft shear shelter deck ship side space speed square inch steam steamer steel stroke surface tanks temperature tensile strength thickness tons trim tubes turbine valve vessel water line weight wire wrought iron
Popular passages
Page 707 - Such water carriage shall be performed subject to all the terms and provisions of, and all the exemptions from liability contained in the Act of Congress of the United States, approved on February 13, 1893, and entitled "An act relating to the navigation of vessels, etc.
Page 696 - Nothing in the foregoing or following sections of this Act shall prohibit the transportation by steam vessels of gasoline or any of the products of petroleum when carried by motor vehicles (commonly known as automobiles) using the same as a source of motive power: Provided, however, That all fire, if any, in such vehicles or automobiles be extinguished...
Page 712 - A marine policy must specify — (1) The name of the assured, or of some person who effects the insurance on his behalf: (2) The subject-matter insured and the risk insured against: (3) The voyage, or period of time, or both, as the case may be, covered by the insurance: (4) The sum or sums insured : (5) The name or names of the insurers. Signature of Insurer. 24. (1) A marine policy must be signed by or on behalf of the insurer...
Page 711 - goods " means goods in the nature of merchandise, and does not include personal effects or provisions and stores for use on board. In the absence of any usage to the contrary, deck cargo and living animals must be insured specifically, and not under the general denomination of goods.
Page 695 - ... nor shall gunpowder be carried on any such vessel, except under special license; nor shall oil of vitriol, nitric or other chemical acids be carried on such steamers except on the decks or guards thereof, or in such other safe part of the vessel as shall be prescribed by the inspectors.
Page 667 - ... may be in collapsible boats or rafts, under regulations of the Board of Supervising Inspectors, approved by the Secretary of Commerce. At no moment of its voyage may any ocean-cargo steam vessel of the United States...
Page 531 - As a unit of current, the international ampere, which is one-tenth of the unit of current of the cgs system of electromagnetic units, and which is represented sufficiently well for practical use by the unvarying current which, when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water, and in accordance with accompanying specifications, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 of a gramme per second.
Page 667 - If the lifeboats attached to davits do not provide sufficient accommodation for all persons on board, additional lifeboats of one of the standard types shall be provided. This addition shall bring the total capacity of the boats • on the vessel at least up to the greater of the two following amounts : (a) The minimum capacity required by these regulations ; (b) A capacity sufficient to accommodate seventy-five per centum of the persons on board.
Page 668 - A life buoy shall satisfy the following conditions : (a) It shall be of solid cork or any other equivalent material.
Page 697 - ... crew, and is in a condition to warrant the belief that she may be used in navigation as a steamer, with safety to life, and that all the requirements of law in regard to fires, boats, pumps, hose, life-preservers...