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GUIDE FOR BUILDING AND CLASSING OFFSHORE SUPPORT VESSELS
| Organization: | ABS |
| Publication Date: | 1 May 2011 |
| Status: | inactive |
| Page Count: | 2,288 |
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Introduction
1. The year 2011 edition of the Guide for Building and Classing Offshore Support Vessels is a new Guide, consisting of the eight (8) booklets as shown in Table 1. With regard to three booklets, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 7:
a) The purpose of the generic title ABS Rules for Conditions
of Classification (Part 1) is to reflect the expanded contents
of PART 1, as a result of including consolidated requirements for
"Classification" applicable to all types of and sizes of vessels,
barges and specific shipboard arrangements/systems
b) The purpose of the generic title ABS Rules for Materials and Welding of PART 2 is to emphasize the common applicability of the requirements to ABS-classed vessels, other marine structures and their associated machinery, and thereby make PART 2 more readily a common "PART" of various ABS Rules and Guides, as appropriate.
c) The purpose of the generic title ABS Rules for Survey
After Construction (Part 7) is to reflect the expanded
contents of PART 7, as a result of including consolidated
requirements for "Surveys After Construction" applicable to all
types and sizes of vessels, barges and specific shipboard
arrangements/systems
2. The numbering system applied in the Guide is shown in Table 2.
3. This Guide has an effective date of 1 May 2011. The effective
date of each subsequent technical change will be shown in
parenthesis at the end of the subsection/paragraph
4. Until the next edition of the Guide for Building and Classing Offshore Support Vessels is published, Change Notices and/or Corrigenda, as necessary, will be published on the ABS website - www.eagle.org - only, and will be available free for downloading. The consolidated edition of the Guide for Building and Classing Offshore Support Vessels, which includes Change Notices and/or Corrigenda using different colors for easy recognition, will be published on the ABS website only when RCN and/or Corrigenda are issued.
5. The listing of CLASSIFICATION SYMBOLS AND NOTATIONS is available from the ABS website www.eagle.org for download.
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