RS ANNEXES TO THE GUIDELINES ON TECHNICAL SUPERVISION OF SHIPS IN SERVICE

The present Annexes shall be treated as a part of the Russian Register's Guidelines on Technical Supervision of Ships in Service and are intended for classification inspectors, ship's crew members and ship owners as the guidelines to be used when on conducting inspections and testing of separate items of technical supervision, on issuance of the appropriate RS documents on inspection results, as the instruction for proper assessment of technical condition, for gauging, repairs, on determination of the composition of the vessel's equipment and outfitting.

Among the documents addressed within this paper there are procedure for in-water inspection of ships, continuous survey instructions, hull tightness test, guidelines for safe ocean towing of the ship, provision of the floating docks with anchors/anchor chains and tow lines for the purpose of single passage, evaluation of limit sea states and limit wind force based on vessel's hull strength and stability, correspondingly, model reports for lifejackets and lifebuoys, instructions for verification of nautical publications and charts, IMO MSC Circular Letters, imposing, controlling and clearing RS requirements, ship survey scheme under HSSC, surveys on vessels that carry dangerous cargo either in bulk or in packaged form, and so many others.