• Semester 6, position 4

The aims of the course are to familiarize students with: 1) basic ship equipment, both with the one found on each ship and with a special one found on some types of ships; 2) essential characteristics of various ship types; 3) regulations concerning ship equipment; 4) the expected development of ship types and their equipment.     

Having successfully mastered the teaching contents of Ship equipment, the student should demonstrate fundamental knowledge about: 1) ship equipment; 2) various types of ships and their essential characteristics; 3) the expected development of ship equipment and ship types etc. 

In brief, the course comprises the following teaching units: 1) Deck equipment (anchoring, mooring and steering device). 2) Cargo access equipment (for vertical and horizontal cargo handling), ship cranes. 3) Safety equipment (rescue, navigational). The Ship equipment course gains in importance concerning the fact that ships differ in the first place in the installed equipment. The cost of ship is considerably affected by the installed equipment. Ship equipment, on the other hand, is not manufactured in the shipyards but is manly purchased from specialized manufacturers. That is, to some extent, the reason why the content of the course is mainly encyclopedic in its character.

The student is in the focus of practical teaching. Attention is directed to the application of knowledge, previously attained by theoretical teaching, and needed for common engineering practice. Emphasis is placed on classification societies’ rules related to ship equipment. World leading ship equipment manufacturers’ brochures and leaflets provide a source for students to get acquainted with technical characteristics and specificities of equipment installing, depending on the type of ship.    

There are no prerequisites

Lectures are available in electronic form. Various classification societies’ rules. Brochures of various equipment manufacturers. Internet resources.

Total assigned hours: 30

New material: 8
Elaboration and examples (recapitulation): 4

Auditory exercises: 10
Laboratory exercises: 0
Calculation tasks: 0
Seminar paper: 0
Project: 0
Consultations: 0
Discussion/workshop: 2
Research study work: 0

Review and grading of calculation tasks: 0
Review and grading of lab reports: 0
Review and grading of seminar papers: 0
Review and grading of the project: 0
Test: 1
Test: 0
Final exam: 5

Activity during lectures: 5
Test/test: 55
Laboratory practice: 0
Calculation tasks: 0
Seminar paper: 0
Project: 0
Final exam: 40
Requirement for taking the exam (required number of points): 30

D. J. House: Seamanship Techniques, Shipboard and Marine Operations, Elsevier, Oxford, 2004. ; International Convention for The Safety of Life at Sea, Consolidated Edition, 2020. ; IMO Life-Saving Appliances including LSA code, 2017.; OCIMF Anchoring System and Procedures, 2010.; OCIMF Mooring equipment guidelines 3rd Ed., 2008.