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Docking Survey

1.Introduction
2.Docking Survey
3.Survey Item
4.Type of Dry Dock
5.Safety in Dock
6.Procedure of Bottom
Inspection
7.Course in Dock
8.Shell Defect
9.Stern Frame
10.Rudder
11.Propeller

4. Type of Dry Dock

To inspect the bottom of a ship, the ship may be transferred to land or the bottom may be
inspected through images on TV screens transmitted from underwater cameras used by
divers. Underwater inspection entails various conditions; all parts of the bottoms of large
ships with lengths and breadths in the order of 200 m and 30 rn respectively, cannot be
inspected in detail using underwater cameras with restricted vision. In practice, it is difficult
to determine which part of the hull is being displayed on the television screen on board the
ship. Consequently, inspection in the dock is decisive and final. Methods of transferring
the ship to the land include the following:

4-1 Slipway
This method is adopted mainly for small craft such as the fishing boats.
The hull is placed on trolleys and pulled ashore on the inclined surface using winches.

12.Anchr
13.Chain Cable

Fig. 4.1 Slipway

14.Sea Valves

Almost all ships are inspected in the dry dock, inspections on slipways are only small
ships such as fishing boat.

4-2 Dry Dock (Graving Dock)

This is a dock built by excavating a large portion of the sea side and at the sea side end
there provides a dock gate; this is the most common form of dry dock. There are three
types of dock gates. the most popular is a removable pontoon gate, others are side hinged
gate similar to the ordinary doors, and another is a bottom hinged gate.

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LISNAVE Margueira Yard in Portugal in 1978

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Wooden Dock
Todd Shipyard in Brooklin New York, 1965?

4-3 Floating Dock

This is a pontoon with length and width suitable for accommodating a specific size of ship.
The pontoon is immersed into the sea deeper than the ship's draft, and the ship is
transferred to the pontoon; the ballast in the pontoon is discharged so that the pontoon
rises to the surface together with the ship on the pontoon. Depending on the construction,
there are three types of floating dock as shown below. The L-type floating dock is not
popular.

L-type

Pontton Type
The bottom
onsists of several
pontoon.

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Ordinary
Floating
Dock

4-4 Sincro Lift

A floating dock makes use of the buoyant force of the pontoon, but in the Syncrolift, the
ship is transferred onto a platform placed on the bed of the excavation, and both ship and
platform are heaved up on to land by winches installed on either side of the platform. The
syncrolift has been installed in Ishii Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., at Futtsu, Chiba Prefecture and
the other one is in Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works in
japan for submarine, These are the only Syncrolift in operation in Japan, but the Syncrolift
is not a rare in other countries. The winches are designed such that they can heave up the
platform at a constant rate according to the weight distribution of the ship. After being
heaved up tonthe land level, a ship is shifted transversely or longitudinally on trolleys;
therefore, if there is a large area, many ships can be simultaneously inspected and
repaired. The photograph above shows a view of the Syncrolift at ASTICAN Shipbuilding
Company, Las Palmas, Spain which is well known for the biggest Syncrolift in the world
and is capable of accommodating ships of up to 36,000 dwt. When the ship is heaved up
on land, it is shifted to the traverser in the foreground. The ship can be moved
transversely to any position from (1) to (7) shown in Fig. by the traverser.

ASTICAN
Ship Yard in
Gran
Canaria,
Spain 1975

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Ship on the
traverser which
shifts right or
left.

Cyncro-liftwinch

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