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Accommodation & Access Equipment

Accommodation ladders, gangways, pilot ladders, embarkation equipment, personnel transfer, and helidecks.

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Lifeboat Davit
A davit's job is not moving people on and off the ship day to day like a gangway; it launches and recovers a lifeboat, including under gravity power alone with the ship listed up to 20 degrees, and its on-load release gear is the single most safety-critical mechanism in this equipment group.
374 models
Accommodation Ladder
Accommodation Ladder
An accommodation ladder is the ship's own hinged stairway to the quay, rigged out and lowered from a fixed platform on the ship's side, and it is a permanently fitted lifting appliance, not a portable gangway.
5 models
Gangway
Gangway
A gangway bridges the gap from quay to ship at a near-horizontal angle and telescopes to follow the tide, unlike the angled accommodation ladder or the rope pilot ladder used for at-sea transfer. Offshore variants add active motion compensation for platform access.
5 models
Helideck
Helideck
Every helicopter movement on a ship is a fire drill that happens to involve an aircraft. The deck itself is only the visible part: what matters is the foam system, the standby fire team, the lighting and the motion limits that decide whether a landing may take place at all.
5 models
Personnel Transfer Basket
Personnel Transfer Basket
A personnel transfer basket is a crane-lifted cage used to move people between a vessel and a fixed platform or another vessel where a gangway cannot be rigged, most often offshore; it depends entirely on the lifting crane and rigging, unlike the fixed ladders and gangways elsewhere in this category.
3 models
Pilot Ladder
Pilot Ladder
A pilot ladder is the rope and step ladder rigged over the ship's side for a pilot to board or leave a vessel underway, and SOLAS specifies its construction, rigging and inspection in more procedural detail than almost any other deck equipment.
3 models
Embarkation Ladder
Embarkation Ladder
An embarkation ladder gets crew down from the embarkation deck to a lifeboat, liferaft or rescue boat that is already at or near the waterline, and it has to work at a steep, moving angle against the shell plating, which is a different job from a berthing ladder.
1 model
Liferaft Launching Equipment
Liferaft Launching Equipment
Liferaft launching equipment covers the davits, falls and release gear that lower a liferaft under control to the water, as distinct from a throw-over raft that simply free-floats off, and the choice between the two depends on freeboard and ship type.
1 model
Rescue Boat
A rescue boat is built and equipped to recover a person from the water quickly, unlike a lifeboat, which is built to carry everyone away from a sinking ship; SOLAS treats them as different pieces of equipment with different speed, launch-time and crewing requirements.
1 model
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Offshore support vessels, drilling units, cruise ships and many large tankers carry a helicopter landing area for crew changes, medical evacuation, pilot transfer and, on offshore units, daily personnel movement. On a fixed platform the deck can be built for the purpose; on a ship it has to fit around the superstructure, the cranes and the masts — which is why the approach sector and the turbulence created by the ship's own structure dominate the design.

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