Accession Number:

AD0860376

Title:

A Dynamic Position Keeping System Installed Aboard the USNS Mission Capistrano (TAG-162). Volume I: Preliminary Design Considerations and Installation.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

COLUMBIA UNIV DOBBS FERRY NY HUDSON LABS

Personal Author(s):

• Beck, Henry C.
• Ess, John O.

Report Date:

1968-08-01

Pagination or Media Count:

226.0

Abstract:

This report covers a review of preliminary investigations, design considerations, specification development, contract performance, installation and test of the first successful, fully automatic acoustic dynamic ship position keeping system. This system has been installed aboard the USNS Mission Capistrano TAG-162. Author

Descriptors:

• *WIRE
• *ANCHOR CHAINS
• *SONAR
• OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
• VELOCITY
• ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS
• DRAG
• BOUNDARY LAYER
• PROPENES
• STEEL
• THRUST
• TANKER SHIPS
• WIND
• WATER WAVES
• POLYMERS
• SHIP HULLS
• HYDROPHONES
• MARINE PROPELLERS

Subject Categories:

• Marine Engineering
• Acoustic Detection and Detectors

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE