Maritime English Vocabulary

Referring to the words associated with fire complete the text below with the appropriate word: alarm, equipment, means, signal, position, fighting, roll, posts

Fire-fighting on board

When fire is discovered on board, it must be tackled immediately with all the ________available, and the fire __________ must be sounded. As soon as the fire alarm ________ sounds, each man must immediately report to his- __________, in accordance with the ship's fire roll, bringing with him the prescribed fire-fighting __________. Fire- __________is organized according to the fire _________. The duty officers and the crew on deck and in the engine-room, including the helmsman and the lookout, must however remain at their _________ until they are relieved or driven away by the fire.

Work in groups: Supply suitable collocations in Maritime English and add one odd collocate:

Container Ship

Multi-Purpose Ship

Multi-purpose ship: Bow (A)

1) Refer to the accompanying diagram of a multi-purpose ship. Take turns asking your partner for the locations of various parts, and explaining the position of other parts to your partner.

Useful vocabulary:

For example:

Your partner: “Where is the top light?”

You: “The top light is on top of the breakwater.”

Ask your partner to tell you where the following parts are located then find the part on the ship diagram:

a) Breakwater

b) Forepeak tank

c) Collision bulkhead

2) Refer to the diagram of the multi-purpose ship to fill in the blanks below with the names of the appropriate ship parts

The bow is the part of the ship between the stem and the collision or forepeak bulkhead, and the adjacent part aft of the forepeak, to the parallel mid body.

The space forward of the________ bulkhead and below the main deck, is

the forepeak. The forepeak ________ is the lowest space in the ________

and is often divided into a lower and upper forepeak tank. The forepeak tank is usually used as a ballast tank. If the ship is not loaded this is often filled with water to increase the draught and to reduce the trim by the stem.

Usually there is a wash-bulkhead at the center line in the peak tanks. This prevents sloshing (the fast movement of water from _________ to starboard) when a tank is party filled. It also improves the rolling-behavior of the ship.

Directly behind the forepeak there can be another tank _______ that extends from starboard to port and from the bottom to the deck; used for ballast or fuel.

In the top of the forepeak, right below the _______ windlass there are chain lockers for the storage of the anchor chains. Above the weather deck in the bow there is often a forecastle, a superstructure from bow to at least above the collision bulkhead. Sometimes extended further aft, to even aft of number one hatch. The forecastle is protected against overcoming sea by a bulwark. On the forecastle is the windlass and other mooring equipment. The foremast is usually at the after part of the forecastle-deck.

1. Rudder and propeller

2. Tank heating / tankwash room

3. Cofferdam, empty space between two tanks

4. Vent pipes with pressure-vacuum valves

5. Hose crane

6. Manifold

7. Transverse horizontally corrugated bulkhead

8. Wing tank in double hull

9. Double bottom tank

10. Tanktop

11. Longitudinal vertically corrugated bulkhead

12. Railing

13. Catwalk

14. Deck longitudinals

15. Forecastle deck with anchor-and mooring gear

16. Bow thruster

17. Bulbous bow