AUS-EWK-L4.1
Steering gear
AUS-EWK-M4 · Systems, Safety and the Sea · AUS-EWK-M4-A Steering, bilge, fire and pollution
A ship that has lost its main engine drifts. A ship that has lost its steering, at speed, in a channel, goes somewhere of its own choosing. That is why the steering gear carries a testing regime that no other machine on board carries.
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