Outcome 5 - ten stages

Question 1

Discuss 10 stages of shipbuilding

Answer 1

1. Design and Estimating:
   * Shipyard staff produce design, cost estimates, building strategy and production plans
2. Materials reception:
   * Cost estimate prepared and materials must be ordered
   * Materials delivered to material reception facility where stored until needed
3. Steel stockyard
   * One of the first items ordered and then stored in steel stockyard
4. Surface preparation
   * Steel plates and sections retrieved from steel stockyard and processed to ensure they meet standards for construction
5. Plate and stiffener preparation
   * Steel plates cut to precise sizes, bent to shape and numbered according to drawing plans
6. Assembly into blocks
   * Build steel components into sub assemblies and blocks from which the ship is constructed in the dry dock
7. Coating
   * Once blocks assembled all surfaced are coated in an anti-corrosive coating
8. Pre-outfitting
   * Fit as many of the thousands of outfit items into the blocks and sub-assemblies
9. Assembly in the dock
   * Prefabricated sections of the ship are lifted into the assembly dock, lowered into place, aligned and welded into position
10. Outfit at outfit quay
    * Once hull complete, dock is flooded and vessel floated to outfit quay where outfitting is completed and trials are carried out