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book emi- nently readable for every- body with an interest in shipping. In actual fact the book may be termed as easy read- ing; leisure material.

The title "Ship Knowledge - A Modern

Encyclopedia" well describes the con- tents of the book. Veritably this is a book that should be found on every true ship- builder's bookshelf and thus be close at hand for daily use whenever necessary.

Questions that crop up like "What is a reefer ship?", or "What was this thing called again? or "What type of systems do they have for that on board?" or "Which party is responsible for this, that or the other" can now be answered with- in a fraction of the time otherwise taken by asking colleagues, phoning out to

Book Review

Ship Knowledge

A Modern Encyclopedia by K. van Dokkum

Bound hard back & front, 341 pages

Published in 2003 by Dokmar, P.O. Box 360, 1600 AJ, Enkhuizen, The

Netherlands. (www.dokmar.com)

The book "Ship

Knowledge - A Modern

Encyclopedia" is basi- cally the adapted and extend- ed English language version of the very successful Dutch book "Scheepskennis" (published in 2001, author Klaas van Dokkum).

In a state-of-the-art lay-out the book's 16 chapters lead the reader in great detail through the multitude of facts related to ships, ship building and ship- ping. The parts and systems together forming a modern ship from design drafts up to the finished construction including paint systems and legal aspects, are extensively dealt with. The incorporation of clear and to the point drawings, cross-section drawings, sys- tem diagrams and many full-colour pic- tures and, especially its use of a lucid no nonsense style of English, make the "experts in the field" etc. Lots of colour pictures of ships (and offshore objects as well), drawings (GAP's, ship construc- tion etc.) and system schematics and such, each say more that a thousand words and "Ship Knowledge - A Modern

Encyclopedia" is full of such material and thereby produces a wealth of infor- mation for those willing to see and receive it. In short, this book may actu- ally be classified as an unmistakable asset to anyone seriously involved in the maritime industry. Besides ship design- ers, shipbuilders, ship owners, ship's crew, ship charters, ship's sales, ship underwriters, ship financers, classifica- tion societies etc. this book should be found on the desk of those studying for professional qualifications within the maritime industry (and indeed others industries close to it). In this respect stu- dents attending merchant navy colleges, naval acadamies, shipbuilding and marine engineering graduate and post graduate courses may be certain that there studies will greatly benefit from a number of (easy reading) hours spend in this most interesting encylopedia. The book is so well set up with three columns per page and plenty of colour- ful illustrations that once you open the first page of this book, it reads almost by itself. You will find that the otherwise dreary chapters such as "Laws and

Regulations" (consisting of 22 pages) is over before you realize it...and it was interesting too! This is what you call easy accessible material."

The author has done the utmost (and has succeeded well) to produce a con- tempory book in which shipknowledge has been presented in the form of a modern encylopedia and is now avail- able as such to all prepared to partake of it's valuable contents. Proof of this suc- cess is clearly shown the fact that a num- ber of Dutch Technical Colleges and TU

Delft have already put this book on their book list for first year students in marine technology and merchant navy educa- tion; No doubt other countries will shortly also follow suite as already much interest is being shown from such areas.

And what's more, I am certainly using it myself (for education and (maritime) industry related purposes). It's on my bookshelf (alongside the first Dutch edi- tion of course!).

Jakob Pinkster M.Sc. FRINA

Marine Technology,

Delft University of Technology design and build a 95-ft. all-aluminum passenger ferry.

The vessel will be built to USCG

Subchapter K regulations for ferry serv- ice and is scheduled for delivery in the second quarter of 2004. Two MTU

DD12V2000 engines coupled to 2.5:1

Twin Disc Nico MGNV272E gears will provide 1,930 bhp. Two 30 kW genera- tors will supply ships service power. The vessel will be equipped with two

NiBrAl 42-in. fixed pitch four-blade propellers.

MSRC, Clean Bay Merge

The Marine Spill Response

Corporation (MSRC) and Clean Bay

Inc. merged the two organizations'

California-based assets effective

January 1, 2004. The merged organiza- tion will operate as the California

Region under the MSRC structure with their principal regional offices located in

Concord. Calif. The merger combines the personnel and resources of both organizations into one locally operated organization, and provides access to

MSRC's considerable national resources in the event of a large incident.

According to MSRC President Steve

Benz. "We are pleased to now provide a seamless spill response system in the

Bay area that will further enhance efforts in the event of an oil spill." Steve

Ricks, former President of Clean Bay, and now MSRC Vice President for the

California Region, added that "By com- bining these two organizations, we have brought the strongest response capabili- ties in this area under one company, with readiness to protect the sensitive

California coastal environment."

New appointments at IMO

Two new senior level appointments have been made at the IMO. Koji

Sekimizu of Japan moves across from the Organization's Marine Environment

Division to fill Mitropoulos's previous role as Director of the Maritime Safety

Division, while Jean-Claude Sainlos of

France steps up to become Director of the Marine Environment Division. rSan Francisco, California - Nov.

The 650 ft DRYDOCK # 1 broke loose from its berth at pier 70 due to 70 mph winds.

The drydock drifted across San Francisco Bay to Yerba Island, where it went hard aground.

Response <& Results:

Titan was awarded the contract and immediately sent a Salvage Master. Salvage Engineer and a six man dive team to the scene. Titan began patching and dewatering tanks.

Refloating was accomplished in 15 days and the vessel was towed back to the Port of San

Francisco at Pier 95.

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