Equipment

In maritime language, the equipment is the whole of the operations necessary to take the sea, i.e. to leave its Mouillage, its station with quay or couple.

Equipment itself is preceded by preparatory operations:

  • whole or part of the crew is called at the points control;
  • the propelling apparatus is put in operating condition: reheating, launching and tests of the machine or the engines, and on a sailing ship preparation of gréement (dérabantage or setting at post office of the aerofoil);
  • the apparatus to be controlled is tested (one says “balanced”);
  • the interior connections (telephone, speaking pipe, intercom) of the footbridge with the machine and the teams of operation are tested;
  • the lashing of the material and the loading is checked;
  • the mooring is duplicated;
  • a pilot is possibly embarked;
  • the connections with the ground are disconnected (telephone, energy, water…);
  • the Coupée is withdrawn.

The ship leaves then its station with quay,

  • either in manner autome while playing on its propulsion, its propellent transverse, its bars and the Aussière S
  • or helped by one or more Remorqueur S and pushers, which will draw aside it from the quay, to avoid it (to make it change direction on the spot) and to bring it in the principal Chenal of exit of the port

The orders with the tug boats and the pushers are generally given by the pilot of the port, which will also guide the ship in its chenalage to the exit.

By safety, as long as the ship will evolve/move out of tightened water, a line of damping will be ready to be wet and the machine will remain at the points control (boarding or the descent times in pace are decreased compared to the normal instruction of use)

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