mu

Upper deck

Tweendeck
Tweendeck
frames

Main
Tanktop
frame
 Deckbeam brackets
serve as joints
between deckbeams
and frames.

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Longitudinal Bracket Deckbeam
tripping girder

Wing-girders
 Side frame
Floor

Flat keel
Shell plating
 Hold pillars

Floor plating
Rider plate
 Side keelson
Centre keelson
(girder)
(girder) Scupper
tweendeck

Sheer strake

Strakes

Bilge strake
Bottom strakes
 Stringer
Side frame

Strake
Bilge strake Centre girder
 Forepeak Weather
bulkhead deck

Panting
stringer

Wash bulkhead

Floor plate
 Afterpeak
bulkhead

Afterpeak

Stern tube

Rudder
post Propeller
post
 APPLICATION:
s for vessels with a
long and sharp stem.

ADVANTAGE:
a large rudder area
s
offers good
manoeuvrability.
 APPLICATION:
in vessels where the size
s
of the rudder requires
additional support.

ADVANTAGE:
s high manoeuvrability.
rudderstock APPLICATION:
in vessels that are
s
unfit for balanced rudders.

DISADVANTAGE:
the rudderstock must
s
endure large stresses.
rudderstock

APPLICATION:
s small vessels of
deep draught.

DISADVANTAGE:
s
the rudderstock must
endure large stresses.
 The blades of the
fixed-pitch propeller are
non-adjustable.

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 APPLICATION:
s
vessels with variable rated capacities.

ADVANTAGES:
1) by adjusting the blades
s

pitch can be controlled;

2) constant
Revolutions Per Minute.

Adjustable blades
APPLICATION: small vessels with
high rating-capacities.
ADVANTAGES:
1) enlargement of
s
manoeuvrability by a
movable duct;
2) enlargement of propeller
s
race;
3) propeller-noise reduction;
4) propeller-protection.
 APPLICATION:
s
shallow draught or USD vessels.
s ADVANTAGES:
1) higher speed development;
2) no moving parts outside the hull.

DISADVANTAGE:
low efficiency.
s
s
APPLICATION:
when high manoeuvrability is required.
ADVANTAGE:
s
a thrust can be produced in any direction.

s
DISADVANTAGE:
limitation on the maximum
power (low efficiency).
Voith-Schneider propeller
C P.C. van Kluijven

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