GENERAL SHIP

KNOWLEDGE
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SHIP STEERING AND MANOEUVRING

 Involves:
Controlling and maintaining ship position/direction
• Heading towards destination
• Deal with resistance and obstacles

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 Pitching

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 Rolling

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 Steering and manoeuvring devices

 Rudder
 Controllable pitch propeller
 Rudder propeller
 Water jet propulsion

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 Bridge signal  Steering gear  Rudder

 Steering gear sytem:
 Control equipment
 A power unit
 A transmission to the rudder stock

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 Two-ram steering gear

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 Four-ram steering gear

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 Propulsion system

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 Controllable pitch propeller [CPP]

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 Rudder propeller/Azimuth thruster

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 Z-drive/L-drive and azipod

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 Azimuth thruster
control system

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 Azimuth thruster and bow thruster

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 Azimuth thruster: an application

# the wake at the aft is perpendicular to the ship

indicating the use of her azimuth thrusters

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 Waterjet propulsion

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 Waterjet propulsion

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 Waterjet bucket

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 Waterjet: full ahead/full astern position

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