Ships by Shippie's

[VPSR]

Godfather: Thanks all is in order now.
You have my favorite handle.
Since I can remember, I have loved that novel & still carry a tattered copy that I had actually stolen from a seamen's club in Sweden. Dont think of me a thief, I was just a lad at that time & on my second ship as cadet. Of all my things, that copy of novel is one thing that has never changed. Its like my talisman.

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[VPSR]

SUPPLY VESSELS are used in offshore industry & as its name denotes are used for supplying various type of stores, fuels, fresh water etc to OIL RIGS, OIL PLATFORMS & sometimes to larger ships. They are also used in pulling out smaller stranded ships sometimes.
This one was laid-off from last two years & owners were trying to revive her back into business.

[Vinosh Sam]

Guess our next GH meet would be on a ship

[SKC]

Excellent Pics VPSR Welcome aboard

[targa]

A "DREDGER" hed (used in digging channels in ports, rivers, channels etc)

Thats a gut wrenching machine ....

Glad to have a Captain in the crowd here ...

[P3T3R]

Yeah, me a Captian! Could'nt study hard to become Engineer or Doctor & so thought if nothing else then lets become a Captain, so here I am.
The first blue ship is one that I have worked on. Rest are the ones I visited for surveys. The largest ship that I have worked on could carry 2,50,000 MT of liquid cargo.

Welcome VPSR. Great to have you on board. I'm a Captain too and I work on Chemical Tankers. I will post some pictures too.

[Techiemechie]

Great pics Sir, this thread has ignited a new interest in Ships for me.
Would love to see more detailed threads on ships from the sailors here on GHDs.

[VPSR]

Welcome VPSR. Great to have you on board. I'm a Captain too and I work on Chemical Tankers. I will post some pictures too.

Greeting Capt. Peter, I did my operation level licenses from Australia & Mates+Masters from UK.
Pls do post some pics & make this thread a SHIP guide for our petrol head brethrens.

Great pics Sir, this thread has ignited a new interest in Ships for me. Would love to see more detailed threads on ships from the sailors here on GHDs.

When as a layman we think of ships, we think of floating metal vessels being used for transportaion of goods. But for a shippie its his bread, butter & LIFE.

Each ship is a complete small world in itself. Sometimes many different nationalities working together to make a ship run smoothly.

I would like to share some shippie language for the non-shippies here. I'll keep it as simple as possible:
1) Divide a Ship, lenghtwise from middle & right side is called STARBOARD (Green lght) & left side is called PORTSIDE (Red light).
2) Floor: DECK
3) Wall: BULKHEAD
4) Roof: DECKHEAD
5) Kitchen: GALLEY
6) Control room of Ship: NAVIGATION BRIDGE or commonly just BRIDGE
7) Top deck of Ship: MONKEY ISLAND (here you will found a mast that mostly looks like Christmas Tree, & so its called as it houses all major navigation lights. All radars antenna etc are also fitted here only)
8) Front part of Ship: FOC'SLE (FORECASTLE) it also houses ANCHORS
9) Rear part of Ship: POOP DECK

Capt. Peter, Pls add things that I may have missed.

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[P3T3R]

Greeting Capt. Peter, I did my operation level licenses from Australia & Mates+Masters from UK.

I did my Mates and Masters from UK too/

Capt. Peter, Pls add things that I may have missed.

Engine Control Room: Situated inside the engine room and basically houses the Engine monitoring and control equipment.

Cargo Control Room: Has the controls for the cargo pumps, valves and monitoring equipment for the cargo tank levels. This is specific to tankers.

Cabin: Bedroom

Alleyway: Passage inside the accomodation.

Bunkers: Fuel (HFO: heavy fuel oil, MGO: Marine gasoil )

Chart: Map

[VPSR]

I arrived on the ship by late evening & complete the ship inspection within same night as I had further inspections lined for next day.
All pics are taken during night time, so kindly excuse the quality.
1) Vessel Profile
2) A Billiard table onboard (quite a rarity)
3) Main Engine & turbochargers
4) Aux Engines
5) Main deck
6) Main deck