What is unattended machinery space?
UMS or Unattended Machinery Spaces is a marine automation system for ship’s engine room. Unlike conventional watch system on normal cargo ships, in UMS class vessels, there are usually no engineer officers on watch in the engine room (from 1700 hrs. to 0700 hrs).
What is a machinery space?
Machinery space means any enclosed space that either contains an installed internal combustion engine, machinery, or systems that would raise the ambient temperature above 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) in all environments the vessel operates in.
What is manned engineroom?
In a manned engine room, during every watch machinery data is recorded manually taking the reading from the local gauges. It is a common practice that watchkeeper’s assistant for that particular watch (TME, Oiler etc.) has recorded all-important machinery local parameters.
What is PMS ship?
Planned maintenance system on ships (PMS) A planned maintenance system allows shipowners and operators to plan, perform and document vessel maintenance at intervals complying with Class and manufacturer requirements.
What are UMS requirements?
Fire Precaution.
What are the requirements for machinery spaces of all ships?
Regulations on the machinery spaces of all ships include:
- control of operational discharges of oily bilge water from machinery space outside Special Areas.
- operation of oily bilge water discharge monitoring equipment.
- recording of machinery space operations concerning oil in the Oil Record Books Part 1 (ORB1)
What is the least a person should do before entering machinery spaces?
Before entering any confined space, a trained and experienced person should identify and evaluate all the potential hazards within the confined space. An important step in determining the hazards in a confined space is air testing.
How important is your knowledge and understanding in watch keeping the machinery spaces?
One must know the basics of the machines and their operations, new trends and upcoming technologies, and maritime regulations along with their amendments. Knowledge gives a great boost to the engineer’s confidence level and also results in more accurate job decisions.
What is a steering room?
This is the room which you have heard so much about in relation to the bridge, the emergency diesel generator, the secondary conning station, etc. This is the engineering space which controls the rudder of the ship and allows the helmsman on the bridge to steer the vessel.
Why are logbooks important onboard?
Logbooks. Logbooks are an important part of daily routines carried out onboard ships as they help in keeping together all important records and parameters for future reference.
What is the meaning of MMSI?
Maritime Mobile Service Identities
MMSI Overview. Maritime Mobile Service Identities (MMSIs) are nine digit numbers used by maritime digital selective calling (DSC), automatic identification systems (AIS) and certain other equipment to uniquely identify a ship or a coast radio station.