What is a Class 2 vessel?
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Class 2 Working boats All vessels that carry less than 12 passengers, (no matter what length) including tugs, water taxis, barges and lighters, smaller ferries, utility vessels of all types.
What are ships classifications based on the merchants type?
The UNCTAD review of maritime transport categorizes ships as: oil tankers, bulk (and combination) carriers, general cargo ships, container ships, and “other ships”, which includes “liquefied petroleum gas carriers, liquefied natural gas carriers, parcel (chemical) tankers, specialized tankers, reefers, offshore supply.
What is a group of merchant ships called?
convoy, vessels sailing under the protection of an armed escort. Originally, convoys of merchant ships were formed as a protection against pirates.
What does 2C survey mean?
2C Survey is the commercial survey certificate for vessels operating up to 30 nautical miles offshore in a commercial or customer-paying capacity. To achieve this certificate, the boat has to be built to certain standards.
What is a vessel for Class 3?
Class III – ships engaged only on voyages in the course of which they are at no time more than 70 miles by sea from their point of departure and not more than 18 miles from the coast of the UK and which are at sea only in favourable weather and during restricted periods.
What does HMS mean on a ship?
abbreviation for. His (or Her) Majesty’s Service. His (or Her) Majesty’s Ship.
What is a 2D survey?
A 2D survey typically contains numerous lines acquired orthogonally to the strike of geological structures (such as faults and folds) with a minimum of lines acquired parallel to geological structures to allow line-to-line tying of the seismic data and interpretation and mapping of structures.
What is a class C vessel?
What are Class C restricted vessels? Marine Safety (Class C restricted operations) Exemption (also known as Exemption 40 or EX40) allows some vessels under 12 metres, operating in C restricted, D and E waters, to operate without a certificate of survey.