Ship Design and Construction, Volume II
Dedicated to the design of individual ship types, this volume provides historical development and and general arrangement plans of tankers, bulk carriers, fishing vessels, dredgers, and more.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Ship Design and Construction, Volume II
Chapter 50: Small Workboats
Robert G. Allan Ken D. Harford Paul S. Smith
NOMENCLATURE
| ABS | American Bureau of Shipping | |
| AFFF | aqueous film forming foam | |
| ASD | azimuthing stern drive | |
| B | beam, molded | |
| Class | classification society | |
| CPP | controllable pitch propeller | |
| Cu-Ni | copper-nickel | |
| D | depth, molded | |
| Disp | displacement | |
| DPS | dynamic positioning system | |
| DWT | deadweight | |
| GRP | glass-reinforced plastic | |
| GRT | gross registered tonnage | |
| IACS | International Association of Classification Societies | |
| IMO | International Maritime Organization | |
| LOA | length overall | |
| LWL | length waterline | |
| lpm | liters per minute | |
| NFPA | National Fire Protection Association | |
| NPSH | net positive suction head | |
| OSRV | oil spill response vessel | |
| OSV | offshore supply vessel | |
| ppm | parts per million | |
| PTO | power takeoff | |
| RIB | rigid inflatable boat | |
| SAR | search and rescue | |
| T | draft | |
| VSP | Voith Schiffstenik Cycloidal Propeller |
50.1 DESCRIPTION
50.1.1 General
To attempt to define and describe concisely what is a work-boat is akin to describing, what is a house? Just as the latter can be reduced to its elementary functional definition as a building with walls and a roof meant to provide shelter for its occupants, so could a workboat be defined simply as a hull with propulsion machinery and other equipment suitable for providing or supporting a particular harbour or coastal service or function. The reader is however none the wiser, and nothing would be conveyed of the myriad of fascinating vessels which keep the world's ports and...
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