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What is Crash Manoeuvring of Ship in


Emergency Situation and what’s its
Procedure?
By KaranC | August 15, 2019 | Guidelines

“Crash” word is generally used to describe some kind of accident or damage when
one object slams into another. However, in the shipping world, when the word is
combined with the term “manoeuvring”; it becomes a procedure which is
performed to avoid any kind of collision or accident.

Why Crash Manoeuvring?


In a sea going vessel, unlike land transport, there are no brakes that are provided
to stop the ship when needed. The stopping of the vessel is done by reversing the
rotational direction of the Main engine and thereby the propeller. This stops or
reduces the speed of the vessel heading towards the collision course.
 

The crash manoeuvring is usually done to avoid any type of collision or crashing of
ship to any other ship or structure (Jetty, land, Iceberg etc). In this type of
manoeuvring the main engine is subjected to severe stress and loading, but the
safety of ship and life is assured.

How to Perform Crash Manoeuvring?


Crash manoeuvring is turning the engine in opposite direction to reduce the
heading speed of the ship. After certain time, the ship stops and starts streaming
in astern direction. This is done by supplying starting air at about 30 bars from the
air receiver to the engine. The stopping air is known as the brake air.

The brake air when sudden injected inside the engine cylinder, will try to resist the
motion of the piston and the rotation of the crankshaft and propeller.

Procedure
Following Procedure is to be followed when a navigational officer calls engine
room and says that we have to stop immediately to avoid collision
 

When there is an emergency like collision, grounding etc. the controls are
transferred immediately in to the Engine room controls

The bridge will give astern direction in the telegraph, acknowledge the same

When the telegraph is acknowledged only the starting air cam will reverse its
direction but the fuel cam will remain in its running position due to running
direction interlock since engine is still running in the ahead direction

The fuel lever in the engine control room is brought to ‘0’

As soon as the RPM of the engine drops below 40 % of the Maximum


Continuous Rating or MCR rpm of the engine, give break air few times in short
time frame

The break air will inject with astern timing setting inside the ahead moving
piston which will resist the piston motion

Since fuel will not inject until running direction interlock opens, as soon as the
rpm drops near to Zero, give fuel and air kick by bringing fuel lever to
minimum start setting

When carrying out Crash Manoeuvring, some safeties need to be bypassed to


avoid tripping of engine in mid of emergency

When the ship stops and situation is under control, a detailed Main engine
inspection is to be carried out when there is a chance. 

You may also like to read-What are the Essential Requirements for Unattended
Machinery Space ?

#general guidelines #ship safety


KaranC

Karan Chopra is an experienced Mariner and a Dual Certificate Holder (Engine and Deck).
He has sailed as 2nd Officer for more than seven years on almost all major types of
vessels. He staunchly believes in spreading knowledge and therefore loves teaching. In
his spare time, he likes writing about his experiences at the sea and connecting with new
peopl

6 Comments

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May 18, 2015 at 5:56 pm

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Hanoch says:
May 1, 2016 at 8:44 am

Sir, i am a junior engineer and would like to know how is crash manoeuvering different
from regular manoeuvering? In regular manoeuvering if we are moving ahead do we wait
for the engine to stop i.e rpm to be zero and then give astern kick or do we give it right
away? Also does engine rpm zero means tht ship speed is also zero or can the ship still
move ahead with momentum even if the engine rpm is zero?

Vignesh says:
March 17, 2018 at 6:06 pm

Safeties and interlock bypassed during crash manueuvring

Rohit Rana says:


June 27, 2018 at 6:44 pm

What safeties and interlocks are bypassed and do we need to bypass them manually or
they will automatically get bypassed by pressing crash manoeuvering button

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