1 General Description
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Assembly - IMO Resolution A.601(15) – Provision and Display of Manoeuvring Information on Board Ships – (Adopted on 19 November 1987) - Annex - Recommendation on the Provision and Display of Manoeuvring Information on Board Ships - Appendix 3 - Manoeuvring booklet - 1 General Description

1 General Description

Parent topic: Appendix 3 - Manoeuvring booklet

1.1 Ship's particulars

  1.1.1 General

 Ship's name, distinctive number or letters, year of build

  1.1.2 Gross tonnage and other information

 Gross tonnage, deadweight and displacement (at summer draught)

  1.1.3 Principal dimensions and coefficients

 Length overall, length between perpendiculars, breadth (moulded), depth (moulded), summer draught, normal ballast draught, hull coefficients at summer load and normal ballast condition

 Extreme height of the ship's structure above the keel

  1.1.4 Main engine

 Type, number of units and power output

  1.1.5 Propeller

 Type, number of units, diameter, pitch, direction of rotation, propeller immersion

  1.1.6 Rudder

 Type, number of units, total rudder area, rudder area ratio (full load and normal ballast)

  1.1.7 Bow and stern thrusters

 Type, number of units, capacities and location

  1.1.8 Bow and stern profiles

  1.1.9 Forward and after blind zones with dimensions specified (full load and normal ballast)

  1.1.10 Other hull particulars

 Projected areas of longitudinal and lateral above-water profiles (full load and normal ballast)

 Length of parallel middle body for berthing (full load and normal ballast)

1.2 Characteristics of main engine

  1.2.1 Manoeuvring speed tables (trial or estimated, at the full load and ballast conditions)

 Engine revolutions, ship speed and thrust (at ahead) corresponding to engine orders

  1.2.2 Critical revolutions

  1.2.3 Time for effecting changes in engine telegraph settings as in 3.1.2 for both routine and emergency conditions

  1.2.4 Time limit astern

  1.2.5 Minimum operating revolutions (for diesel engines) and corresponding ship speed

  1.2.6 Maximum number of consecutive starts (for diesel engines)

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