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pages 229-269: contains list of ships built by Blohm and Voss - 1880 to 1987

The incidence causes control and prevention of fire in ships and shipyards are discussed. Particular attention is paid to - hazards of poor machinery maint enance burning and welding spontaneous combustion fire fighting techniques and fire defence systems.

High powered anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) ships call for a flexible and efficient propulsion system throughout the entire power range. Wartsila has developed a new hybrid propulsion system for different designs of AHTS

A record of the ships that were owned in North Norfolk during Queen Victoria's reign. Defined as North Norfolk - running from haven at Thornham through the beach landing places at Walcott.

This paper presents a database of corrosion wastage. It is based on over 110000 thickness measurements recently collected from 140 trading tankers. This database is larger than most other corrosion databases in the public domain. Corrosion wastage exhibits a high level of variability. In addition to thickness measurements of individual structural members this database also has information on hull girder's geometrical properties and strength of ships in service. Corrosion wastage has an influence on the hull girder strength. Statistical interpretations of the database are used to represent corrosion wastage in oil tankers. The severity of corrosion is ranked by three levels: slight moderate and severe levels corresponding respectively to 50 75 and 95% cumulative probability on the database. The risks of corrosion wastage to aging ships' structural integrity are assessed using the observations of the corrosion wastage database.

Statistical evidence concerning fires on ships in particular those caused by electrical installations is discussed. Measures to restrict or avoid fires of electrical origins are detailed and special attention is given to the effects of fire on cables e.g. the fire propagation they cause and the release of combustion products. Measures to reduce the consequences of such fires include the separation of main and emergency circuits the safe routing of cable runs and safe ensured operation of essential monitoring control and emergency systems during fires. The author discusses the use of cable penetrations to prevent the passage of fire through bulkheads and decks and refers to the 1974 SOLAS Convention which contains additional requirements for the fire integrity of decks and bulkheads on cargo ships.

Open-top container ships are a development emanating from Australian industry which are not directly accommodated by the international maritime safety conventions. Australia's role in the development of standards to ensure that such ships are constructed for safe operation within those conventions is outlined. The design concept of the containership initially termed hatchcoverless rather than open-top involves a ship with a U-shaped cross section similar to the conventional container ship. The design and operational advantages over conventional containerships are outlined. The loadline problem tank testing involvement of other Flag Administrations IMO consideration of safety requirements international acceptance of safety requirements and IMO consideration of tonnage issues are discussed.

The MAP (Marine Air Pollution) Committee was organised at MSEJ (Marine Engineering Society in Japan) (the Japan Institution of Marine Engineering since January 2001) and has worked for the investigation of air pollutants from ships. The emission characteristics of PM (particulate matter) from marine diesel engines were investigated to evaluate PM emission from ships. PM showed different emission characteristics between four-stroke and two-stroke engines. The results are described. Chemical aspects of PM also showed difference with engine type and operating conditions. These differences are expected to be due to combustion conditions engine specification or fuel quality. On-board PM measurement was carried out to measure PM emission characteristics from a cruising ship. The evaluation of PM emission based on ship performance is proposed with the results of on-board measurement. In addition a new PM measurement method is applied to marine diesel engines.

Several questions are investigated in two linked research projects dealt with at Chalmers Lindholmen in Gothenburg. These questions include: (a) how safe is the equipment used on most passenger ships today and where are the limits in rough and cold weather? (b) what are the limits of human performance? (c) how do individuals and groups behave when entering evacuation equipment and (d) how should the management be organised to achieve as high as possible a degree of safety in evacuation operations? The outline of these two projects is given along with results of tests giving the performance of lifeboat and raft-systems in waves results of chock tests of human dummies in a simulated lifeboat during launching and results of human behaviour observations during evacuation trials on ships and in a training centre.