Engineering Flashcards
Cheng/DCO responsibilities
- Chief Engineer
- Damage control officer
- For all out of plant shipboard maintenance
- overall in charge of damage control of the ship. (DCTT and ETT)
DCA responsibilities
-Damage control assistant
Damage control of the ship
EDO responsibilities
-Engineering Duty Officer
- Senior engineering personnel appointed by the CHENG to act on his behalf in his absence.
- Authorizing Officer ( danger and caution tag issueing)
- damage control of ship
- engineering duty section leader
Fire Marshall responsibilities
- At sea fire party
- senior gas free engineer
- ships damage control training
Electrical distribution system has how many zones and load centers?
9 electrical zones
24 out of plant load centers
How many general load centers and how many functional load centers ?
9 general load centers
15 functional load centers
General load centers feed what
Ventilation
Lighting
Receptacles
Functional load centers feed what
ACEs
A/C plants
Fire pumps
Major electrical components
- Automatic bus transfer
- manual bus transfer
- casualty power
(ABT) automatic bus transfer functions
- Feeds vital equipment or lighting. ( medical,fire pumps,steering,AFFF stations)
- automatically transfer from normal power to emergency power upon loss of power
(MBT)
Manual bus transfer functions
- Feeds ventilation, combat systems equipment.
- watch stander manually shifts power sources from normal to alternate
Casualty power function
Used to provide emergency power to vital equipment due to battle damage of primary or alternate sources
Steering system purpose
To change ships heading
How many electrohydraulic steering units
4.
- 1&3 STBD side
- 2&4 port side
Ways to operate the steering gear
- Bridge helm
- secondary con
- local with trick wheel
- emergency steering
- ratchet assembly
Purpose of ship degaussing folder
Properly start up the degaussing system based on ships geographic location