Table Of ContentDry Docking and Shipboard Maintenance
This book covers every aspect of the dry docking of seagoing vessels. It provides a guide
to industry for the different dock types and docking procedures inclusive of material
management, steelwork operations and dry dock legislation. Docking a vessel successfully
involves many skills and trades, requiring a teamwork operation between ship’s crews and
the shoreside docking personnel. This book describes dock types alongside the various
methods of docking, stability concerns, repair activities, steelwork management, legislation
and survey detail, as well as shipyard safety requirements.
• Includes a new chapter on steelwork and material management of the shipyard complex.
• Contains over a hundred photographs and illustrations, including a full colour plate
section.
• Full coverage of dry dock operations, handling facilities, main shipbuilding slips and
shipyard repair activities.
D.J. House has now written and published nineteen marine titles, many of which are in
multiple editions. After commencing his seagoing career in 1962, he was initially engaged
on general cargo vessels. He later experienced worldwide trade with passenger, container,
Ro-Ro, reefer ships and bulk cargoes. He left the sea in 1978 with a Master Mariner’s quali-
fication and commenced teaching at the Fleetwood Nautical College. He retired in 2012
after thirty-three years of teaching in nautical education. He continues to write and research
maritime aspects for future works.
Other Works Published by D.J. House
Seamanship Techniques (4th Edition) (2014), Elsevier.
ISBN 9780415829526 (hbk), 9780415810050 (pbk), 9780203796702 (ebk)
Seamanship Techniques Volume III ‘The Command Companion’ (2000), Butterworth/
Heinemann.
ISBN 0750644435
Marine Survival (3rd Edition) (2011), Witherby Publishing Group.
ISBN: 9781856093552 (hbk), 9781856094856 (ebk)
Navigation for Masters (4th Edition) (2012), Witherby Publishing Group.
ISBN 9781856094030, (ebk) 9781856095099
An Introduction to Helicopter Operations at Sea – A Guide for Industry (2nd Edition)
(1998), Witherby Publishing Group.
ISBN 1856091686
Anchor Practice – A Guide for Industry (2001), Witherby Publishing Group.
ISBN 1856092127
Marine Ferry Transports – An Operator’s Guide (2002), Witherby Publishing Group.
ISBN 1856092313
Dry Docking and Shipboard Maintenance (2003), Witherby Publishing Group.
ISBN 1856092453
Heavy Lift and Rigging (2005), Brown, Son & Ferguson.
ISBN 0851747205
Seamanship Examiner (2005), Elsevier.
ISBN 075066701X
Ship Handling (2007), Elsevier.
ISBN 9780750685306
Elements of Modern Ship Construction (2010), Brown, Son & Ferguson.
ISBN 9780851748146
The Ice Navigation Manual (2010), Witherby Seamanship International.
ISBN 9789053315989 (joint authorship)
Marine Emergencies (2014), Routledge.
ISBN 9781138020450 (pbk), 9781315770697 (ebk)
Cargo Work (8th Edition Revised) (2015), Taylor & Francis, Routledge.
ISBN 9781138846067
Also:
Marine Technology Reference Book (Safety Chapter) (1990), Nina Morgan (ed.),
Butterworths.
ISBN 0408027843
Dry Docking and
Shipboard Maintenance
A Guide for Industry
Second Edition
D.J. House
Second edition published 2016
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
and by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
© 2016 D.J. House
The right of D.J. House to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in
accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any
form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented,
including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system,
without permission in writing from the publishers.
First edition published 2003 by Witherby & Co Ltd
Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered
trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
House, D. J.
Dry docking and shipboard maintenance : a guide for industry / D.J. House. -- 2nd edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-138-90923-6 (hardback : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-138-90924-3 (pbk. : alk.
paper) -- ISBN 978-1-315-69407-8 (ebook) 1. Dry docks--Handbooks, manuals. etc. 2.
Ships--Maintenance and repair. I. Title.
VK361.H68 2016
623.820028'8--dc23
2015006896
ISBN: 978-1-138-90923-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-90924-3 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-69407-8 (ebk)
Typeset in Sabon
by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NN
Contents
Preface to 1st Edition vii
Preface to 2nd Edition ix
About the Author xi
Acknowledgements xiii
List of Abbreviations xv
Docking Terminology xix
Conversion equivalents of common units in use within the docking/shipbuilding
and marine industries xxv
Marine Measurement Terminology xxvii
Shipboard Plate and Construction Terms xxix
A Brief Anthology of Shipbuilding and the Dawn of Docking Ships xxxvii
1 Dry Dock Types 1
2 The Procedure to Dry Dock Ships 19
3 Dry Dock Stability 57
4 Dry Dock Operations 75
5 Dry Dock – Safety Procedures 123
6 Steelwork and Material Management of the Shipyard 151
7 Dry Dock Legislation and Associated Industries 183
Dry Dock Outlook – Summary 201
Clasification Societies 203
Annex 1 205
National Listing 209
Bibliography 211
Index 213
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Preface to 1st Edition
I have always felt that the skills of an individual are so easily lost when that man or woman
leaves an industry or retires from a working life. None more so than from the shipping
industry, as that individual takes with him or her the experience and values of tried-and
tested-practice. The docking of ships is a skill in an industry that is an absolute crutch for
shipping operations to continue in safe respectability. It is worldwide and draws thousands
of people within its perimeter of operation, and yet little has been written about what must
be considered as the closest relation to the marine industry.
This particular work has been compiled to hopefully provide an awareness of this very
special relationship between the shipping and dry docking segments of the marine industry.
It is meant to promote safe practice amongst mariners who, albeit briefly, become like the
beached whale, as a ship out of water. At the same time it is designed to appreciate the
continuous efforts of dockyard personnel in their endeavours to tackle any and every task
that tends to be landed into their dock operations.
I strongly believe that both the mariner and the shoreside employee of the dockyard can
learn from each other, and if this work can, in any way, cement the working environment
of the ship inside the dock it will have served its purpose.
David John House, March 2002
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Preface to 2nd Edition
The shipping and docking industries are comparable to two sides of the same coin, each
side of the coin being dependent on the other for its very existence. The seafarer, within
the different sectors of the marine industry, always needs the experience and attributes of
the shipyard and its docking facilities, while the docking fraternity provide the security and
safety crutch to keep our ships well maintained and in Class.
The need for safer ships and cleaner seas has never been greater than it is today.
The need to maintain high standards in all aspects of trade is paramount to ensure our
people are retained in what has historically been seen as a high-risk industry.
To this end if we do not ‘police’ ourselves, governments will do it for us, and the docking
of ships provides a platform to survey, inspect and rectify potential hazards, before they
occur.
A level of mutual respect has to exist between the maritime and docking industries the
world over. Ship construction is producing larger and more innovative vessels and whatever
is being built must be maintained, while seafarers continue to be challenged by increased
technology, new products, higher speeds, deeper draughts and a need to operate in a
protected environment. We all need that mutual respect, for the skills of the other, to operate
in a continued safe arena of ships and shipyards.
David John House, 2015
