What are Fast Rescue Boats?
Fast rescue boats are essentially specialised high-speed crafts, which are smaller and used extensively for response and rescue operations in water.
How Deep Can Military Submarines Go?
Submarines are pressure vessels that can operate at submerged depths underwater. So what’s the maximum depth military submarines can go? Let’s find out in the article.
What is Floating Instrument Platform?
R/P FLIP or Floating Instrument Platform existed for almost 60 years until it was retired in 2021 and was scrapped in 2023.
What is Eductor On a Ship?
An eductor is a simple version of a pump used to move a liquid form of a fluid out of a certain place. Find out more about eductor on ships in this article.
What is a Tumblehome?
When you look at the given cross-section view of the vessel, the decrease in the sectional breadth of the vessel towards the top, away from the maximum beam, is referred to as the tumblehome. Find out more about tumblehome in this article.
Design Of Asphalt And Bitumen Tankers
Asphalt and Bitumen tankers are specialised tankers designed and constructed to carry asphalt or bitumen contents in molten form at very high temperatures.Â
What is an EchoSounder?
An echo sounder is a system that helps understand what is underneath and has been used by most seagoing ships for a long time. Learn more about echosounder in this article.
What is Stowage Factor?
The stowage factor is an expression that determines how much usable space one tonne of cargo, by weight, can occupy. Learn more about stowage factor in this article
How Much Cargo Can A Cargo Ship Carry?
The weight of a vessel is a very interesting aspect in the first place. Unlike all other physical objects, when we talk about the weight or mass of a vessel or any floating object in general, we usually allude to displacement.