Ship Handling

Name: Ship Handling
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ISBN: 9780750685306

ISBN-10: 0750685301

ISBN-13: 9780750685306

Edition: 2007

Authors: David House

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Suitable as a training manual and a day-to-day reference, Shiphandling is the comprehensive and up to date guide to the theory and practice of ship handling procedures. Its covers the requirements of all STCW-level marine qualifications, provides expert guidance on all the hardware that marine professionals will make use of in the control and operation of their vessel and offers a broad focus on many shiphandling scenarios. ? Covers all key shiphandling topics for nautical (merchant marine) students and more experienced mariners seeking trusted guidance ? Author David House is one of the best known marine authors; he has a wealth of experience, with over 30 years experience at sea and is…

Book details

List price: $78.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/18/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.77" wide x 9.53" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Stephanie Barron was born in Binghamton, New York in 1963. She received a Bachelor's degree in European history from Princeton University and a Master's degree in history from Stanford University. She worked as an intelligence analyst at the CIA. She wrote her first book in 1992 and left the Agency a year later. She is the author of the Jane Austen Mystery series.



About the author


Preface


Acknowledgements


Meteorological tables common to the marine environment


Weather notations and symbols as plotted on synoptic weather charts


List of abbreviations associated with ship handling and shipboard manoeuvres


Definitions, terminology and shipboard phrases relevant to the topic of ship handling and this text


Tidal reference


Introduction



Ship handling and manoeuvring



Manoeuvring characteristics and interaction



Anchor operations and deployment



Operations with tugs



Emergency ship manoeuvres



Controlling elements of ship handling



Dangers of interaction - MGN 199



The hardware of manoeuvring ships


Summary


Bibliography


Self-examiner - Questions and Answers on ship handling


Index