Safety IV

SHIP CONSTRUCTION AND STABILITY

1. Deep tank construction
2. Garboard strake. sheer strake
3. Stability and buoyancy
4. Collision bulkhead
5. Camber, margin plate, intercoastal?
6. Free surface effect?
7. Static and dynamic stability?
8. LOLL, GZ, righting lever ?
9. Pounding effect on rudder
10. What are Skates?
11. Types of floor
12. How ship turns? Rudder function?
13. Why is rubber angle not more than 36 Degree?
14. How does the ship move? Propeller function?
15. Why is the thrust bearing fitted aft?
16. What action will you take if there is a thrust bearing high temperature?
17. What is a Torsion Box in a container ship?
18. Derivation of free-surface effect.
19. What is metacentric height? What is its importance?
20. What is dynamic stability? What is its importance?

21. What is a chain stopper?

22. What is a dead man brake?
23. How many brakes are there on a life boat winch?
24. What is a transverse meta centre and how is it derived (inclining experiment with
mathematical proof and sketch)
25. Mid ship section of your ship
26. Rudder testing
27. Types of ship, special safety of bulk carrier?
28. Sagging, hogging.
29. Sketch hatch cover diagram.
30. Cb , Cm , Cp, Significance.
31. Stern structure.
32. Resistance of vessel.
33. Solid frame, light holes.
34. Drawing of duct keel.
35. Dry dock examination.
36. Less freeboard for tanker.
37. Bilge keel (Why not in passenger ship)
38. Permeability
39. What will happens to Cg of weight removed?
40. Longitudinal section of ship and watertight B/H.
41. Types of keels with sketches.
42. Pounding, painting arrangements with sketches.

43. Fire protection subdivisions?

44. What is bilge strake, sheer strake with sketches.
45. Soft nose in a bulbuous bow (Why)?
46. Collision B/H damage, actions.
47. Sketch an acb. Why called acb?
48. There is something done to bearing pedestal of an alternator, what is it?
Insulation pads made from nylon are fitted under each pedestal bearing and the bearing holding
down bolts are similarly insulated. MAGNETIC INTERPOLES producing opposite ampere turns fitted
which minimizes effect of stray magnetic fields causing reduced emf in the shaft.
49. Sources of static charge on an oil tanker. Anything special about the piping?
50. Floodable length. 51. Significance of subdivision.
52. Margin line.
53. Difference between forepeak and aft peak bulkhead?
54. Corrugated and water tight bulkhead (Advantage and disadvantage)
55. Sketch the types of motor starters. Why timer required in auto transformer and start
delta types?
56. How do you trace earth faults?
57. Reasons for a crankcase explosion. Actions to be taken if it occurs.
58. Draw DB structure
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59. Trips on an alternator. Motor protection aids?
60. TEU capacity of container ships is expressed in terms of number of standard 20 ft
equivalent units
61. Dry docking procedure.
62. What is Load Line? Where is it drawn and why is it necessary?
63. Why dont we have a single hold instead of different holds? Why?
64. What is the purpose of Bulbows bow?

65. What is the capacity of Ballast Tanks?

66. What is provided in double bottom tanks?
Storage for fo, lo, fw. cofferdams
67. What are the advantages of having engine room aft then forward?
no shaft tunnel. Reduction in shaft length. Transmission losses reduced. Aft trim maintained. No
discontinuities in transverse strength members.
68. What are the various types of ships and latest trends?
69. State tube sealing arrangements?
Stuffing boxes with glands, lip seals and garter springs, radial face seals with similar faces on stern
tube.
70. Forces which act on a vessel in bad weather.
71. How are frames spaced in cargo holds. What are Web Frames?
72. What structural defects could you possible see when examining cargo holds?
73. Class of your ship ?
74. What is mini-bulk carrier?
75. What is GRT, NRT, deadweight, light weight, displacement.
76. What is bilge keel and duct keel.
77. Load line marking including dimensions of circle and line.
78. Semi-balanced, balanced rudder.
79. Formula to find out area of rudder.
80. How to measure rudder drop? Places from where rudder drop is measured?
81. What is cofferdam?
82. What way bow thruster helps the ship?
83. Without entering ship, how will you know class of the ship?
84. What is load line? Draw load line of you last ship?

85. Cross-section of ship.

86. Cross section of cargo-hold.
87. Rudder Working Principle.
88. Material for rudder stock. (forged or cast steel)
89. Bilge keel thickness formula.
90. CPP and Reduction gear function.
91. What is centre of Buoyancy?
92. Define centre of gravity.
93. What is stiff ship?
94. Metacentric height (GM)
95. Archimedes Principle.
96. Define (Density/Displacement/bulbuous bow)
97. Stable, unstable and neutral equilibrium righting lever.
98. How to calculate NRT, GRT
99. Sheer strake, stringer. Outboard deck plate
100. Web frame, Duct keel, camber (uses)
101.Types of rudder and explain how rudder is supported?
102. Sketch and explain DCP, portable extinguisher.
103. How to fix rudder, how rudder carrier bearing take the weight of rudder.
104. Free surface effect, kort nozzle, free board.
105. What is longitudinal and transverse framing. How to minimize vibration in Engine
Room.
106. What is rudder drop, jumping clearance, jumping bar?
107. Measurement of jumping clearance from steering gear compartment.

108. Difference between collision B/H and water tight B/H.

109. Load line requirement.
110. Plimsole marking indications.
111. What happens to draught if ship sails from S.W to F. W. increases.
112. What is freeboard, reserve buoyancy for what purpose are they utilized?
113. What are web frames, what is the thickness, width, and spacing in them and how
many and whom they are fitted?
114. What is bulwark?
115. What is impressed current system, where and why it is used?
116. What is hunting lever? How it works?
117. Units of dwt and GRT. Are they same?
118. Difference between tugs and mini-bulk carrier?
119. (Construction, propulsion) emergency steering of both?
120. Bollard pull and how much time the pull was maintained?

121. Camber, tumble Home, trim?

122. Righting lever?
123. F. W. allowance. How to calculate?
124.How to calculate TPC?
125. Watertight bulkhead, mm. no of watertight Bulkheads.
126. Sheer and its effect.
127. Free board and effect.
128. Web frame, Rise of floor.
129. Stern frame, transom stern.

131. Transverse metacentre, cavitation.

132. Duct keel, stresses on ship.
133. Angle of vanishing stability.
134. Types of bulkhead.
135. Collision Vs watertight B/H (location, Why provided)
136. Transverse BIH,(minimum no., drawing)
137. Pounding, precautions against pounding.
138. Free board/free board deck.
139. Inclining experiment.
140. Light wt displacement.

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