For the passengers of cruise ships VIKING SKY vacation at sea didn’t turned out to be the best one. The cruise ship they were on was struck by bad weather and subsequent loose of the engines. The vessel sent distress signal for the help near the coast of the NORWAY. Incident happened on Saturday, 23rd. […]
Solas requirement for lifeboat have been discussed in this article. This is most common topic that come across us during our exams and also while we are doing some work onboard. Lifeboat as you know is an important lifesaving equipment or setup available on ship. It’s meant for escaping the vessel in case the condition […]
In internal combustion engines or any machinery that involves moving parts, it needs lubrication for the basic reason that it will avoid wear and tear in between moving parts. In shipping where the size of the engines is huge, lubrication requirements are specific and much important. On board ship mainly lubrication is needed for main engines in large scale, […]
This article deals in the information regarding the scavenge space inspection done on the marine diesel engines and what importance it holds. Scavenge space, is the space in the 2 stroke diesel engines, which is used for the scavenge air, including the space below the piston. The air supplied by the auxiliary blowers or the turbocharger for the combustion […]
Black Out on Ship is a common term which is used, when she loses all the power due to the failure of generators. Well the reason of happening such a event are many which we will discuss about them more latter. Since Ship always have its own power house to feed pumps, engine, lightings etc, failure of power will result […]
Read about free surface effect in vessels and the methods that are used to reduce the same. If, free surface effect is not corrected, then it posses great threat to the stability of the ship. Tanker ships mostly have problem with this type of effect. Let’s see what it is and how we tackle in real scenarios. Concept of Free […]
Governor of engine is a piece of instrument and an integral part of engine working system. Well the main function of a Governor is to control the speed or RPM of the engine in a control manner. What happens is that when load on engines changes, engine tends to accelerate or decelerate. During increase in load, RPM of the Engine […]