ANCHORING LARGE VESSELS narod.ru（锚定的船只narod.ru）.pdf

The Nautical Institute ANCHORING LARGE VESSELS A new approach By Captain C.A. McDowall MSc C.Eng Ml Mecn.E MRINA FNI THE AUTHOR Captain C.A. McDowall MSc CEng MIMechE MRINA FNI Captain Allan McDowall was educated at HMS Worcester and has a sea career spanning 45 years with 18 years in command, mainly of VLCCs and very large tankers. He spent 12 years ashore in engineering from a shop floor apprentice at Stothert Pitt through the design office to RD. He took HNC, endorsements and the IMechE direct examination to degree level, before being sent to Loughborough University by Stothert Pitt to do a MTech in engineering design under the late Professor D.H. Chaddock CBE, of the Fighting Vehicles Research Establishment at Shrivenham. Following RD at Stothert Pitt he was project leader with Rotork; development engineer, then chief design engineer with consultants Walters Engineers of Bath; then assistant works engineer at the Avon Rubber Company before returning to sea. His MSc was in naval architecture (The behaviour of very large ship hulls) at the University of Bath in his spare time while at sea with Esso as second mate. He has done research into mechanisms (Studies of elastic joints) and also anchor performance, took out a patent on one anchor and a registered design on another. Allan McDowall is Hon. Secretary of the Solent Branch of The Nautical Institute. Recently retired from deep sea, he sails an Evolution and flies a C752 in his spare time. Published by The Nautical Institute