3 Ship's Description
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3 Ship's Description

  3.1 For the purpose of the ship's description, any necessary information regarding the design of the ship should be provided to the Administration along with description of ship essential systems' design and functionality following a fire or flooding casualty. As a minimum, such information and description should include:

  • .1 the design criteria for each individual essential system or group of essential systems, to achieve compliance (e.g., separation, duplication, redundancy, protection, or a combination of the above);

  • .2 the basic layout of the vessel including boundaries of compartments subject to the casualty (watertight or "A" class boundaries), e.g., in the form of plan views and cross-sections, including, but may not be limited to: general arrangement plan, capacity plan, watertight subdivision plan, space fire categorization plan (or structural fire protection plan), plan of spaces protected by fixed fire-extinguishing systems, etc.;

  • .3 criteria adopted for the selection of safe areas and intended locations;

  • .4 a list of all systems that are intended to be submitted for assessment. It should be noted that although such a list would include, in the first instance and as a minimum, all essential systems referred to in SOLAS regulations II-2/21.4 and 22.3, their actual number and identification may vary depending on the size, type, arrangements, design, etc., (e.g., propulsion systems: shaft or podded propulsion units, etc.) of the ship;

  • .5 drawings/documents describing the location, arrangement and connections of essential systems (including any of their components) mentioned in SOLAS regulation II-2/21 or II-2/22;

  • .6 the description of the power supply for the essential systems;

  • .7 data regarding the minimum speed vs. weather and sea conditions (e.g., results of model tank tests in sea keeping conditions including consideration of wind forces); and

  • .8 any additional design detail intended to ensure or support the ship systems' capabilities.

  3.2 Additional information about the intended area of operation, the operating pattern or patterns (which may be used to define any intended speed/maximum distance for safe return to port) should be included in the ship's description.

  3.3 Interpretations as contained in paragraph 1 of appendix 1 to these Interim Explanatory Notes may be used when completing the ship's description.


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