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Emergency Steering from the Bridge and Engine Room

Emergency steering from bridge.

Give rudder order by the emergency steering tiller.
Start additional steering gear pump
Reduce speed (propeller pitch)
Inform Master and Chief Engineer.

Emergency steering in steering-gear room

On receiving order from the bridge for emergency steering, duty engineer shall immediately proceed to the steering gear room.
Start steering-gear pump nr 2 (stb), supplied via emergency switchboard.
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Bight- A loop form by doubling back a rope upon itself.
Bitts – Vertical post or bollards mounted in pairs around which a line can be secured.
Bollard- A vertical post to which the eye of a mooring line can be attached.
Breast lines- Mooring lines leading ashore as nearly perpendicular as possible in a ships fore and [...]

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