Mart 201 Flashcards
Define: PCC
Pure car carrier
Define: PCTC
Pure car truck carrier
Liner run
Has a fixed schedule/route
Has rate schedules , Large fleets, cargoes include finished product, consumer goods. Cars, Walmart underway, people. Typical ships include container, PCC/PCTC, passenger
What is a tramp run
No set schedule, no rate schedule, small companies/fleets, cargoes include scrap, grain, logs, fuel, project cargo. Typical ships are tankers, bulk, break bulk, OSV, heavy lift
Define: M/V
Motor vessel
Define: S/S
Steamship
Define: N/S
Nuclear ship
Define: T/S
Training ship
Define: R/V
Research vessel
Define S/V
Sailing vessel (Not much employment)
Define: GTS
Gas turbine ship
Define: M/T
Motor tanker
Vertical dimension from the keel to the top of the stack
Tier
Longitudinal dimension from bow to stern
Bay
Athwartship dimension from centerline out to both sides
Row
The distance the hull is submerged into the water at a particular point on the vessel is called ________
Draft Mark
Archimedes principle refers to
The physical law of buoyancy
A body immersed in a fluid is Buoyed up by the force equal to
The weight of the displaced fluid
A ship will displace an amount of water equal to
It’s weight, and the waterline will reflect this
A waterline is
Where the water intersects The hull, and Will vary depending on the amount of cargo, ballast, fuel, stores, etc.
Draft marks must be displayed on _____ and _________ sides, are _____ high and spaced _______
Port, starboard, 6 inches, 6 inches
Draft marks can be displayed
In English (feet and inches), or metric (meters and centimeters)
Metric draft marks are _______ high, and _______ Apart, And the start of each full meter may have a __________ Next to it
10 cm, 10 cm, M
10 cm equals
.1 m or 1 dm
_________ _________ Ensure the ship has sufficient freeboard, thus sufficient reserve buoyancy
Plimsoll marks
Define: reserve buoyancy
Volume of watertight portion of ship above the waterline
______ Is the difference between draft at the stern and draft at the stem
Trim
_______ ________ Is the average of forward and aft drafts
Mean draft; the main is equal to the four and after draft divided by two
The length from the rudder shaft to the crossing point Inside the bow plate and upper deck is the_________ ________
Registered length