I tell further about the ferry "Georg Ots".
I got on it without any problems, at first I bought a pass to enter the port, said that I needed to look at the temporary storage warehouse for a new carriage, then I went straight to the pier where Ots was standing, boarded the ship, called the watch officer, and honestly told him who and why I came. Once I also worked in the navy, and served on the ships of the navy under the Charter, so we easily found a common language with the watchman. Therefore, I not only received permission to film the vessel, but also gave me a detailed tour of the vessel.
Where does the ship start? It is difficult to say, of course, maybe from the name, maybe from the stem, maybe from the captain. Let's start with the bridge. The correct name is the command bridge or the navigation bridge, but in the fleet they say it is abbreviated - the bridge. Usually the bridge on the ship is located at the top of the superstructure, and the longer the ship, the higher they try to raise it to ensure the best view. On modern ships, the bridge takes up the entire width of the ship, and even has wings protruding beyond the usual width. That's about the same as on "Georg Ots". Since the vessel is intended for navigation in high latitudes, the wings of the bridge are made closed. For an even better view, the bulkheads and portholes are tilted forward and to the sides. Glasses have wipers, heating, almost like on a car. Above the bridge is a navigation bridge, roughly speaking, the roof of an ordinary bridge. It duplicated the main means of ship control, such as a machine telegraph, a rudder, installed magnetic compass, spotlights, etc.

1. M/v "Georg Ots"

2. This is how the bridge at m/v "Georg Ots" looks like

Navigation bridge with mast, white inscription on the deck - this is the identification number of the vessel, applied for easy identification of the vessel from the air. On the mast are GPS receivers, weather instruments, radio masts of all ranges, satellite phone receivers, rotating radar antennas, running lights. The inscription "GEORG OTS" is necessary so that the navigator from other ships with the help of binoculars can turn to the navigator Ots, and not shout, "Hey you, going on the course 237, you will run over us right now." Navigation lights are needed so that at night it can be seen that the ship is moving towards you with a certain side, on the left - red, on the right - green. In order for the navigator from the school to be remembered better, they are taught that they need to remember the "female genital organ", from where they themselves must isolate the letters "P" and "Z", which corresponds to "Right" and "Green". It is remembered for a lifetime.
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On this bulkhead are located, devices for communication with the shore, they replaced those bulky devices that previously occupied a separate room and required the presence of the head of the radio station and radio operators on the ship. Now the captain's assistants manage all this. In fact, all these devices can replace an ordinary satellite phone, but guaranteed communication and security are most important here, so bulky but reliable is better. Here, as far as I understand, devices for giving SOS signals are installed. Previously, the so-called Cospas device usually hung on the bulkhead, in case emergency it was necessary to turn it upside down and he began to give a signal. Whether these instruments have survived to this day in connection with the introduction of the global GMDSS system, I do not know. Previously, communication with the shore from the flight looked like a special shamanic ritual, in certain time the radio operator called "Vladivostok-Radio" via long-wave communication, then the girl operator in Vladivostok called the necessary phone, connected the phone to the connection when connected. The conversation took place in an open way for the whole Pacific Ocean, looked something like "Vladivostok-Radio, Sergei will talk to you now", "Hello, let's", "Hello, hello, wife, hello. Are you waiting for me ???. Welcome!", And from there "Yes, I'm waiting, welcome !”, “How are the children? Reception!”, “What children? Are you Sergey from which ship? Reception.”
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5. This nook is the responsibility of the third mate, here on nautical charts the route of the vessel is laid. Signal flags lie on top of the shelves. They are used when it is necessary to give a signal to other ships, but the radio station cannot communicate with them. For communication between ships and with coastal services, there is a standby channel. After communication on it, the parties choose another channel for communication only among themselves and release the standby channel. To determine who exactly is calling you, there are inscriptions on board the ship. English language. The fishermen still have their call sign written in capital letters. There is a ship's log on the table. The ship's logbook records: the list of the crew, the date of arrival at the port and departure from the port, the depth of the water in the port and at the exit to the sea, speed, heading, wind strength during the voyage, the names of the watch crew and watch navigators and their detailed report on all events occurring during the flight.

6. Here, from top to bottom, there is a converter that converts the data received from the log and gyrocompass into digital form and transmits it to navigation devices, another device that shows the speed taken from the log, a device that takes data from the gyrocompass, a plotter that captures the movement of the ship from using a GPS satellite system, the second picture shows a gyrocompass repeater showing the ship's heading. In fact, the operation of these devices can be replaced by a conventional GPS receiver, but for the safety of navigation, all devices are installed at the factory. The ship will not be released to the sea without them or with them inoperative.

7. Autopilot, shows the angle of rotation and allows you to control the rotation of the ship's rudders. It can work in automatic mode, keeping the vessel on a given course. Modern instruments even take into account drift from a side wind or wave.

8. A device is also hanging here, automatically receiving via satellite and printing a weather map at regular intervals.

9. Diagrams of various ship life support systems hang on the bulkheads.

10. Fire alarm system and control of fire partitions and extinguishing systems. Somewhere nearby there should be control panels for hydraulic doors of watertight partitions.

Vessels at sea disperse using a certain analogue of traffic rules, the so-called COLREGs-72, i.e. international rules to prevent ship collisions at sea. Adopted in 1972 by an international convention and entered into force in 1977, they are binding on all persons operating a ship. The last changes were made in 2003.
In order to figure out which course ships are following around, a ship's radar is used. It can be used to determine the speed and direction of movement of objects at sea, even those that are not yet visible visually. Based on this, the officer on duty decides whether it is necessary to maneuver or change the ship's speed. If suddenly the radars break down, a direction finder, a clock and a ruler are used to determine the courses.

11. This is how it looks on m/v "Georg Ots".

12. For safety, it is duplicated on the second side. It usually has its own antenna. In general, for the fleet, duplication of systems is a common thing, as they say safety first.

13. Here are the control devices for various searchlights, ship horns, running lights, lighting, steering gears, etc. I don’t know for sure, I didn’t really consider it.

14. Here are telegraphs for controlling the power plant, controllable pitch propellers, bow and stern thrusters, as well as communication with the central control post.

15. On each wing, the control is duplicated.

That's all for today ... if I was inaccurate somewhere, don't blame me, I'm not "horned", as navigators are called on the ship, tomorrow I'll tell you about the interior of the ship, and then about the engine room.

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Bridge (nautical term)

Bridge- a fenced part of the deck of the upper tiers of superstructures and deckhouses or a separate platform. bridges designed to accommodate control, surveillance or communication posts, as well as to move from one superstructure to another.

bridges distinguished by purpose - running, rangefinder, signal, searchlight, navigation and others.

By location bridges divided into bow and stern, according to the degree of protection from the effects of adverse environmental conditions - open, closed and semi-closed.

The entire deck of the wheelhouse is called navigation bridge, and its open areas along the sides from the felling - navigation bridge wings. On ships intended for navigation in high latitudes, the wings of the navigation bridge and the wheelhouse are combined into one closed room to protect against low temperatures. navigation bridge also bears the name captain's(pilot bridge).

navigation bridge called the roof of the wheelhouse and adjacent rooms. On running and navigation bridges the main control posts of the ship are located.

A variety of ship bridges are bridges located above the upper deck and intended for transition from one side to another and for communication between superstructures. Longitudinal bridges are installed on tankers that do not have any internal passages under upper deck and having a low freeboard when fully loaded.

Literature

• Marine Dictionary, M, Military Publishing House of the USSR Ministry of Defense, 1959
• Marine Collegiate Dictionary, Ld, "Shipbuilding", 1991, ISBN 5-7355-0280-8

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Service premises on the ship - premises in which the crew permanently or temporarily performs work on the operation of the ship:

• Engine room;
• Service and utility rooms (lantern, painter's, skipper's, carpenter's and some others).

Office space associated with the management of the ship, located mainly on the deck of the navigation bridge.

Walking bridge. On it are located the navigation and wheelhouses - the place of control of the vessel and keeping watch by the navigating staff. Modern ships usually have a closed bridge. Its open areas on each side are called wings.

Rice. 1 Navigation bridge: a - semi-closed; b - closed

An upper bridge is arranged on the roof of the navigation bridge. This high-lying and completely open bridge provides good visibility over the entire horizon and is used for maneuvering in narrow places, in ice, for navigational and astronomical observations.

The wheelhouse is a small enclosed space with a glazed forward bulkhead.

In the wheelhouse are installed:

• Steering cabinet;
• Traveling magnetic compass;
• Gyrocompass repeaters;
• Machine telegraph and other necessary equipment.

Rice. 2 Wheelhouse

Next to the helmsman there is a navigational cabin, equipped with a large table for storing and laying out maps, as well as several cabinets and shelves for storing navigational tools and manuals. On ships with a large closed bridge, the charthouse and wheelhouse are often placed in the same room, separating the charthouse with a curtain.

Quite often now, the wheelhouse has a glassed-in and aft bulkhead to provide a view of the stern.

A variation of the ship's bridge is a bridge located above the upper deck for communication between superstructures or for moving from one side to another. Such bridges are installed on tankers due to the increased flooding of the deck and on fishing vessels, in which the upper deck is occupied by a large number of deck and fishing mechanisms.

Rice. 3 General arrangement drawings
Rice. 3.1 Drawings of the general arrangement: 1 - radio room; 2 - wheelhouse; 3 - navigation cabin; 4 - cabin of the fourth navigator; 5 — cabin of the third navigator; 6, 7 - office and bedroom of the senior assistant; 8 - cabin chief of the radio station; 9 — radio operator's cabin; 10, 11, 12 - study, bedroom and captain's bathroom; 13 - pilot's cabin; 14 - insulator; 15 - bathroom; 16 - outpatient clinic; 17 — cabin of the first assistant; 18 - doctor's cabin; 19 - electrician's cabin; 20, 21, 22 - an office, a bedroom and a shower room for a senior mechanic; 23 — cabin of the second mechanic; 24 - office; 25 - reserve cabin; 26 — cabin of the fourth mechanic; 27 — cabin of the third mechanic; 28 — cabin of the second navigator; 29 - office of the second navigator; 30 - buffet; 31 - wardroom; 32 — salon for the team; 33 - canteen team; 34 — tiller compartment; 35 - laundry, 36 - tween deck No. 4; 37 - cabins for sailors; 38 - painting; 39 - lamp; 40 - skipper; 41 - carpentry; 42 - minders' cabins; 43 - ironing; 44 - hold No. 4; 45 - drinking water tank; 46 - mechanical workshop; 47 - electrical workshop; 48 - tween deck No. 3, 49 - tween deck No. 2, 50 - tween deck No. 1; 51 - room for electrical appliances; 52 - department of refrigeration units; 53 - provisional pantries; 54 - lubricating oil tank; 55 — ballast tank; 56 — engine room; 57 - auxiliary boiler baffle; 58 — fuel tanks; 59 - hold No. 3; 60 - hold No. 2; 61 - hold No. 1; 62 - tunnel propeller shaft

The radio room, if possible, is located on the navigation bridge deck, which ensures a quick and reliable transmission of all received correspondence to the watch officer.

Service premises. They are most often located in tank superstructures, which allows them to be isolated from other rooms.

In the skipper's pantry, items of ship's equipment (cables, hooks, brackets, blocks, etc.) are stored. In cases where the skipper's room is small, the upper part of the forepeak, separated from the ballast tank by a waterproof platform, is used to store equipment.

Lantern and paint rooms are designed to store lanterns and paints, as well as painting tools and a small supply of fuel for ship lights. These rooms are dangerous in terms of fire and therefore must have access to the open deck.

Metal bulkheads of service premises are made of refractory material. In addition, structurally these rooms must always meet the highest fire safety requirements.

The arrangement and layout of office space equipment should ensure maximum serviceability and the possibility of using general ship systems (fire extinguishing, irrigation, etc.).

The service premises also include the tiller compartment, in which the steering gear is located. It is located in the stern.

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Photos are clickable.

Let's continue with the boat trips.
Well, today is the most tempting.. most attractive place.
Walking bridge.
Bridge of a 50,000 tanker.
On this tanker, the bridge is completely closed ... it was assumed that the ship would operate in high latitudes. And this series, yes ... did work and continues to work in winter. In particular, in winter in Canada ... and they know what it is ice and cold.
In addition, a series of these tankers were the first in the world to receive the "winterization" class ... but, to be honest, this steamer did not impress with its winter qualities. European shipbuilders are much more competent in this regard.
Well, it's all lyrics...

Everything is glazed .. from side to side. Wings of the bridge and wheelhouse.

Left side wing.
On the wings of both sides are the ship control panels.
That this is a column painted gray .. I won’t explain. Everyone already guessed ...
Vaughan, if you look closely ... you can see the handle of an ax tucked under this column)

Everything you need. DAU handle, VHF radio ...

That's it, this is a board) The portholes are movable.

There is never a lot of space on a steamboat.

Here on the stern windows all sorts of things are stored.
For example..signal flags.
And on the bedside table there are emergency radio stations. Use only when abandoning, that is, leaving the ship.

Well, these are radio beacons. Also for use in an emergency.

Compass.

And this is .. navigational.
Heavy, light-proof curtains. At night, while the ship is moving ... the navigation room is curtained with these curtains. At sea, at night, the bridge is in complete darkness ... it’s easier to notice the lights of an oncoming ship. .Light, of course, is not powerful .. lamps ... but still.

And racks with all sorts of instructive and guiding ...

The chart table again.

Computers and devices...

This is an echo sounder display, lag (speedometer)) and an anachronism .. everything is nearby)

And this is it .. the same ship's magazine.

The table is made with drawers for cards (not playing cards) ... but that’s all .. paper cards are a thing of the past. Cartography is now electronic.
The cards, of course, remained ... but they drag them slowly .. write off.

This device is now planning a flight.
The compass and parallel ruler are gone.

Also on the bridge .. in the same table life jackets for the watch, signal flares, an emergency line-thrower are stored ...

And this is a communication block.
Communication is everyday ... so to speak, and emergency.

Of course .. hours. Timekeeping on the ship is important.
Damn, but the most important ship's chronometer did not take a picture ...

Our office is in Singapore, the personnel department is in Nakhodka.

All kinds of certificates.

In the corner, too ... communication equipment. And racks, racks, racks ...

Well, this is ... well, what .. is in perfect harmony with itself .. with modern space equipment.
(There is a service in the sea church. The preacher from the pulpit broadcasts:
-And so, when you see that your boat has lost its sails and rudder ... and the waves and the wind carry you to the stones ... what? what should you do? .. That's right, fall to your knees and throw your hands up ...
- Anchor, bang .. - a smoky hoarse voice from the last shop - Anchor, bang, you need to throw it.)

So we got to the starboard side. Here you can ... sit on the sofa and drink tea and coffee in the local teahouse.
I knew one captain who lived on the bridge ... on such a sofa.
He went to the cabin only to shower .. and sometimes change his shirt.
The navigators were a little tense.

There are doors on the wings of the bridge.. you can go out on deck.
Aft side.

Right .. the same control console.

And these are already blocks for lighting the vessel and controlling navigation lights.
These are also fire alarm and fire extinguishing systems control units.

Reference tables for ship management.

Well, and ... the central control console.
Right wing .. power plant control.

Center - navigation.

Electronic navigation..in action)

On flexible leads..these are lamps. When they are turned on...they glow red.

The throne of the captain) Sitting on this .. as it were .. is not recommended) Repressions are sometimes very strong ...
-They START on the watch ... but they don’t sit or lie down !!! ... -I remember .. once a very well-deserved captain yelled at the watch navigator, catching him in this chair. Now that navigator .. the captain is himself and yells the same ...and adds:
-That's when I was third...
And then I usually start laughing, and they kick me out of the bridge.

And this is already ... sad modernity.
Camcorders and microphones. We also have an analogue of black boxes.

Steering wheel. At sea.. autopilot.
On manual when the passage of narrowness (but not always .. entry and exit from the port, mooring-unmooring)
All this, of course, is tied into one control complex.

On the frontal part, above the windows, there is a dashboard ... a quick glance at this panel, and you can immediately see the real course of the vessel, the position of the rudder blade, the time ...

And this ... let's say this .. periscope. Shows magnetic compass data.
The magnetic compass itself is installed on the navigation bridge.
Located above the steering column.

Table again. Williamson's loop. Maneuver in case of "Man overboard".

At the beginning of the post .. signal flags were visible on the porthole. In fact, the flags are stored like this:

Radars radars ... GPS .. GMDSS ... satellites and space ...
But the old and the good hasn't gone anywhere.
Direction finder.

Binoculars

There is also a sextant. True, the last time I saw its use today ... already in 1991.

Barograph.

Chronometer. But it's not as beautiful.. as in the box.. the one in the case of non-ferrous metal.

But this...
Maybe someone noticed that wipers are installed on the windshields ... like on a car.
This stray .. helps with strong snow charges, when the wipers do not save ...
This disk rotates at high speed, and knocks down everything that sticks to it .. through it and look ahead.

I didn’t take a picture of the toilet. But it is)
There is also a fountain of drinking water ... but they don’t use it. They try to drink bottled water.

Portholes with heating and blowing. Pipes for washing with water are also connected outside.
The wind puts sea water on the glass ... salt. You have to wash it often.

In general, it is convenient to lean on the windowsill with your elbows and stick your forehead into the porthole)
And you can see this spot .. from the forehead .. immediately)

Bridge..one of the few places where you can smoke.

Aft view from the bridge.

That, perhaps, is all. Such is the bridge ...

We wish the shift officer a calm watch ... and leave.
Shall we go to the car?
Or how?

Or a separate platform. bridges designed to accommodate control, surveillance or communication posts, as well as to move from one superstructure to another.

bridges distinguished by purpose - running, rangefinder, signal, searchlight, navigation and others.

By location bridges are divided into bow and stern, according to the degree of protection from the effects of adverse environmental conditions - into open, closed and semi-closed.

The entire deck of the wheelhouse is called navigation bridge, and its open areas along the sides from the felling - navigation bridge wings. On ships intended for navigation in high latitudes, the wings of the navigation bridge and the wheelhouse are combined into one closed room to protect against low temperatures. navigation bridge also bears the name captain's(pilot bridge).

navigation bridge called the roof of the wheelhouse and adjacent rooms. On running and navigation bridges the main control posts of the ship are located.

A variety of ship bridges are bridges located above the upper deck and intended for transition from one side to another and for communication between superstructures. Longitudinal bridges installed on tankers that do not have any internal passages below the upper deck and have a small freeboard when fully loaded.

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Initially, the ship was controlled from quarterdeck - the aft part of the deck, as a rule - elevated for a better view. The location of the quarters in the immediate vicinity of the steering gear made it possible to simplify the steering gear as much as possible. In the same place, inside the poop, the captain's cabin was usually located, which provided him with quick access to the quarterdeck. After the appearance of the first steamships, this arrangement turned out to be inconvenient - the captain and officers were constantly bothered by smoke from the chimneys, in addition, the view was greatly blocked by the casings of the paddle wheels. Therefore, a separate platform appears in the middle part of the ship, sometimes in the form of a bridge thrown between the casings of the wheels, from which the captain commanded the ship, and the engineering staff could observe the operation of the paddle wheels and give orders to the engine room located below.
Subsequently, thanks to the spread of servo drives and on-board communication devices, it became possible to move the bridge forward, into the bow of the ship, providing from it best review- especially after the abolition of sails. On many ships, several bridges appear that serve various purposes - navigation (captain's), navigation, admiral (from which the admiral and his staff could manage the squadron as a whole without interfering with the work of the captain of the flagship), and so on.
In the 20th century, covered bridges with glazing protected from the weather became widespread, providing comfortable working conditions in any weather.

see also

• Command post
• Star Trek: Bridge Commander

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Literature

• Marine Dictionary, M, Military Publishing House of the USSR Ministry of Defense, 1959
• Marine Collegiate Dictionary, Ld, "Shipbuilding", 1991, ISBN 5-7355-0280-8

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He urged on his already tired horse in order to quickly pass these crowds, but the farther he moved, the more upset the crowds became. By high road, on which he left, carriages, carriages of all kinds, Russian and Austrian soldiers, of all branches of the military, wounded and unwounded, crowded. All this buzzed and swarmed mixedly to the gloomy sound of flying cannonballs from the French batteries placed on the Pracen Heights.
- Where is the Emperor? where is Kutuzov? - Rostov asked everyone he could stop, and could not get an answer from anyone.
Finally, grabbing the soldier by the collar, he forced him to answer himself.
- E! Brother! Everyone has been there for a long time, forward fled! - the soldier said to Rostov, laughing at something and breaking free.
Leaving this soldier, who was obviously drunk, Rostov stopped the horse of the batman or the caretaker of an important person and began to question him. The batman announced to Rostov that an hour ago the sovereign had been driven at full speed in a carriage along this very road, and that the sovereign was dangerously wounded.
“It can’t be,” said Rostov, “that’s right, someone else.”
“I saw it myself,” said the batman with a self-confident grin. - It’s time for me to know the sovereign: it seems how many times in Petersburg I saw it like that. Pale, pale, sitting in a carriage. As soon as he let the four blacks, my fathers, he thundered past us: it seems time to know both the royal horses and Ilya Ivanovich; it seems that the coachman does not travel with another, like with Tsar Ilya.
Rostov let his horse go and wanted to go on. A wounded officer walking by turned to him.
- Whom do you need? the officer asked. - Commander-in-Chief? So he was killed with a cannonball, he was killed in the chest with our regiment.
“Not killed, wounded,” another officer corrected.
- Yes, who? Kutuzov? Rostov asked.
- Not Kutuzov, but how do you put it, - well, yes, everything is the same, not many are left alive. Go over there, over there, to that village, all the authorities have gathered there, - this officer said, pointing to the village of Gostieradek, and passed by.
Rostov rode at a pace, not knowing why and to whom he would now go. The sovereign is wounded, the battle is lost. It was impossible not to believe it now. Rostov was driving in the direction indicated to him and along which the tower and the church could be seen in the distance. Where was he in a hurry? What was he to say now to the sovereign or Kutuzov, even if they were alive and not wounded?
“Go along this road, your honor, and they’ll kill you right here,” the soldier shouted to him. - They'll kill you!
- ABOUT! what are you saying! said the other. – Where will he go? It's closer here.
Rostov thought about it and went exactly in the direction where he was told that they would kill him.
“Now it doesn’t matter: if the sovereign is wounded, can I really take care of myself?” he thought. He drove into the space where most of the people who fled from Pracen died. The French had not yet occupied this place, and the Russians, those who were alive or wounded, had long since left it. On the field, like shocks on a good arable land, there were ten people, fifteen killed, wounded on every tithe of the place. The wounded crawled down in twos, threes together, and unpleasant, sometimes feigned, as it seemed to Rostov, their cries and groans were heard. Rostov trotted his horse so as not to see all these suffering people, and he became afraid. He was afraid not for his life, but for the courage he needed and which, he knew, would not withstand the sight of these unfortunates.
The French, who had stopped shooting at this field, littered with the dead and wounded, because there was no longer anyone alive on it, saw the adjutant riding on it, pointed a gun at him and threw several cores. The feeling of these whistling, terrible sounds and the surrounding dead merged for Rostov into one impression of horror and self-pity. He remembered his mother's last letter. “What would she feel,” he thought, “if she could see me here now, on this field and with guns aimed at me.”