Marine Inspection. On the navigation bridge of a United States ocean liner docked at New York Harbor, a Coast Guard inspector (left-Commander William T. Coyle, USCG) with the ship's officer tests the annunciator, a signal device to send orders to the engine room. Many items that one day might save a ship are checked by specialists. Among these is the internal communications system between engine room and the bridge. Other items tested by specialists include rapid transmitting equipment, lifeboat engine, submersible pumps, emergency generating systems, boiler safety valves, firefighting eq
Marine Inspection. On the navigation bridge of a United States ocean liner docked at New York Harbor, a Coast Guard inspector (left-Commander William T. Coyle, USCG) with the ship's officer tests the annunciator, a signal device to send orders to the engine room. Many items that one day might save a ship are checked by specialists. Among these is the internal communications system between engine room and the bridge. Other items tested by specialists include rapid transmitting equipment, lifeboat engine, submersible pumps, emergency generating systems, boiler safety valves, firefighting equipment and pumps. In addition to annual dry-dock inspections of the hull, passenger vessels are Coast Guard inspected in port about every three months to verify that safety standards of national law and the 1948 International Convention of Safety of Life at Sea are being upheld.
Size: 4966px × 5652px
Photo credit: © NB/USC / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 17-a2-187, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg
