Section 11 Machinery surveys - General requirements
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Section 11 Machinery surveys - General requirements

11.1 Annual, Intermediate and Bottom Surveys

11.1.2 For ships assigned the notation ‘laid-up’, a general examination of the machinery is to be carried out in lieu of the normal Annual Survey requirements.

11.2 Complete Surveys

11.2.1 While the ship is in dry-dock, all openings to the sea in the machinery spaces and pump-rooms, together with the valves, cocks and the fastenings with which these are connected to the hull, are to be examined.

11.2.2 All shafts (except screwshafts and tube shafts, for which special arrangements are detailed in Pt 1, Ch 3, 17 Screwshafts, tube shafts and propellers), thrust block and all bearings are to be examined. The lower halves of bearings need not be exposed if alignment and wear are found to be acceptable.

11.2.3 An examination is to be made of all reduction gears complete with all wheels, pinions, shafts, bearings and gear teeth, thrust bearings and incorporated clutch arrangements.

11.2.4 The following auxiliaries and components are also to be examined:

  1. Auxiliary engines, auxiliary air compressors with their intercoolers, filters and/or oil separators and safety devices, and all pumps and components used for essential services.

  2. Steering machinery.

  3. Windlass and associated driving equipment, where fitted.

  4. Evaporators (other than those of vacuum type) and their safety valves, which should be seen in operation under steam.

  5. The holding down bolts and chocks of main and auxiliary engines, gearcases, thrust blocks and intermediate shaft bearings.

  6. Where Thrusters and/or Podded Propulsors are fitted and have been assigned the ShipRight descriptive note ThCM, the degree of inspection required whilst in dock will be determined by the analysis of Condition Monitoring records. Refer to ShipRight Procedure Machinery Planned Maintenance and Condition Monitoring.
  7. Fuel cells and associated equipment.

11.2.5 All air receivers for essential services, together with their mountings, valves and safety devices, are to be cleaned internally and examined internally and externally. If internal examination of the air receivers is not practicable, they are to be tested hydraulically to 1,3 times the working pressure.

11.2.6 The valves, cocks and strainers of the bilge system, including bilge injection, are to be opened up as considered necessary by the Surveyor and, together with pipes, are to be examined and tested under working conditions. The fuel oil, feed, lubricating oil and cooling water systems, emissions abatement plant for combustion machinery where installed, as well as the Ballast Water Treatment System (BWTS) where installed, ballast connections and blanking arrangements to deep tanks which may carry liquid or dry cargoes, together with all pressure filters, heaters and coolers used for essential services, are to be opened up and examined or tested, as considered necessary by the Surveyor. All safety devices for the foregoing items are to be examined.

11.2.7 Water ingress detection arrangements fitted on single hold cargo ships having length less than 80 m and bulk carriers and flooding detection systems fitted on passenger ships are to be tested to demonstrate that they are in good working order. Alternatively, this testing may be conducted during the required hull Special Survey space examinations, see also Pt 1, Ch 3, 5.3 Examination and testing.

11.2.8 Fuel tanks which do not form part of the ship's structure are to be examined and, if considered necessary by the Surveyor, they are to be tested to the pressure specified for new tanks. The tanks need not be examined internally at the first survey if they are found satisfactory on external inspection. The mountings, fittings and remote controls of all fuel oil tanks are to be examined, so far as practicable.

11.2.9 Where remote and/or automatic controls are fitted for essential machinery, they are to be tested to demonstrate that they are in good working order.

11.2.10 For ships fitted with a dynamic positioning system, the control system and associated machinery items are to be examined and tested under operating conditions to an approved Test Schedule.

11.2.11 In addition to the above, detailed requirements for steam and gas turbines and steam engines, engines, electrical installations and boilers are given in Pt 1, Ch 3, 12 Turbines and steam engines - Detailed requirements, Pt 1, Ch 3, 13 Reciprocating internal combustion engines - Detailed requirements, Pt 1, Ch 3, 14 Electrical equipment and Pt 1, Ch 3, 15 Boilers respectively. In certain instances, upon application by the Owner or where indicated by the maker's servicing recommendations, the Committee will give consideration to the circumstances where deviation from these detailed requirements is warranted, taking account of design, appropriate indicating equipment (e.g. vibration indicators) and operational records.

11.2.12 For a fuel installation using gases or other low-flashpoint fuels see also Pt 1, Ch 3, 23.4 Complete Surveys.

11.2.13 For towing ships (e.g. tugs), where towing winch emergency release systems are fitted, these are to be examined and operationally tested with the towing line under load, in both normal power condition and blackout condition.


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