Marine Engineering Watchkeeping and Resource Management

Flashcards covering vocabulary, maritime definitions, and procedural standards for engineering watchkeeping based on the lecture transcript.

Watch Takeover Timeframe

The practice of being at your post at least 15 minutes before taking over the watch to ensure a proper handover.

Assertiveness

A human element that enables personnel to communicate with others sincerely and equally without violating the right of others.

Decoding

The process where the receiver interprets and makes sense of the message received from the sender.

Environmental Risk Management

A systematic application of management system policies, procedures, and practices to the task of analyzing, evaluating, and controlling environmental risk.

Furrings

Strips of timber, metal, or boards fastened to frames or joists to bring their faces to the required shape or level for the attachment of sheathing or flooring.

Venturi tube

A primary element used with flow measurement devices that is highly suitable for liquids containing solids in suspension.

Familiarization

Providing a new crew member with the information needed in order to function comfortably on the ship.

Brow

A gangplank usually fitted with rollers at the end resting on the wharf to allow for the movement of the vessel with the tide.

Peep hole

A feature in the boiler casing used to examine the condition of the flame.

Cordage

A comprehensive term used for all ropes of whatever size or kind on board a ship.

STCW Convention and Code

The IMO publication that requires the standard of competence of seafarers on the use of the English language in written and oral form.

Teamwork

Contributing responsibly and enthusiastically to tasks at hand and lending support to one another to achieve preset objectives.

Prioritization

An undertaking where an engineer takes into account safety, urgency, and adequacy in operating and handling machinery in various situations.

Boss Frame

A frame that is bent to fit around the boss in the way of a stern tube or shaft.

Charismatic leadership style

A style where the leader possesses an inspirational quality that makes followers attracted to him and regards him with reverence.

Fusible plug

A safety device installed in air compressors or compressed air systems that melts at $150^{\circ}C$ to prevent explosions.

SFOC (Specific Fuel Oil Consumption)

A performance measure determined using engine power and the amount of fuel consumed in a specific period of time.

Telescopic pipes

Components in large slow-speed engines designed to allow piston cooling water to enter efficiently without contaminating the engine lube oil.

Mist detectors

Devices used on large propulsion diesel engines to monitor and check for the presence of lube oil vapors in the crankcase.

Cribbing

Foundations of heavy blocks and timbers used for supporting a vessel during the period of construction.

Compact-type steering gear power failure

An emergency event that causes the rudder to remain locked in its last position.

Futtocks

Pieces of timber of which a frame in a wood ship is composed.

Block cheek

A half shell block with a single sheave bolted to a mast or other object which serves as the other half shell.

Buckling

A distortion, such as a bulge, or the act of becoming distorted and bending out of its own plane.

Distraction

The full attention of a person on one event to the exclusion of others, often indicating that situational awareness is beginning to breakdown.

Breast hook

A triangular shaped plate fitted parallel to decks in the bow for rigidly fastening peak frames, stem, and outside plating.

Pneumecator

An instrument used to indicate tank fluid level.

15 PPM Oily Water Separator

An acceptable equipment for processing bilge slops for overboard discharge according to maritime regulations.

C/E's Night Order book

A book containing the Chief Engineer's instructions for night watch officers that must be read and acknowledged by all engineer officers.

Scavenge Fire Procedure

Putting the main engine to dead-slow ahead, stopping it, and then applying fixed fire extinguishing medium to the trunk.

UMS (Unmanned Machinery Space) Duty

The requirement that the designated engineering watch must be immediately available and on call to attend the machinery spaces.

Dead man alarm

A precaution that must be switched on by the engineer on duty upon entering a UMS-mode operated engine room.

Loop Scavenging

A method used in 2-stroke engines where air enters at the lower end of the cylinder and exhaust gas leaves at the top through an exhaust valve.

Spiral wound flexitallic

A type of gasket typically used on high-pressure steam flange joints.

Key

The item that prevents a gear pump shaft coupling from rotating on the shaft.