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Table 5.3
Alternative manning for handy-sized products tanker in 1986
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Column: 1 2 3 4 5 6 I 8 9 101112131415
Master
Mates
Chief Engr.
Engineers
IUO
Pumpman
Bosun
Deck ratings
Eng. ratings
GPs
Catering
Dual purpose
Junior officers
Dual purpose
Senior officers
and these numbers seem to apply to all crew nationalities. Progress to still lower
numbers is in hand however with the Scandinavian countries generally in the lead.
A Dutch statement quoted in the Department of Transport report sets the
following principles:
“When setting minimum safe manning standards, the lowest numbers will
only be allowed when a vessel has automatic steering, UMS, mechanical
hatches, mechanically operated moorings and systems which will reduce on
board maintenance”.
As far as the U.K. is concerned, tabular rules prescribing crew numbers are now
a thing of the past with safe-manning certificates now only being issued after a
