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General

These rules provide design requirements for steering gears intended to move a rudder to be installed on board a vessel classed by the Society.

Rudders

Requirements for rudders are given in Pt.3 Ch.14 and in DNV rules for classification: High speed and light craft, DNV-RU-HSLC Pt.3 Ch.5.

Geared and podded thrusters

Requirements to steering of podded and geared thrusters are given in Ch.5 Sec.3. Requirements to steering of water jets are given in Ch.5 Sec.2.

Additional requirements in other parts of the rules

For additional requirements for vessel navigation in ice (Ice, PC), see Pt.6 Ch.6, and for Icebreaker, see Pt.5 Ch.10 Sec.10. For additional requirements for naval and naval support vessels, see Pt.5 Ch.13. For additional requirements to vessels with additional notation redundant propulsion (RP(1, x), RP(2, x), RP(3, x)), see Pt.6 Ch.2 Sec.7. For additional requirements to vessels with additional notation dynamic positioning systems (DYNPOS and DPS), see Pt.6 Ch.3 Sec.1 and Pt.6 Ch.3 Sec.2.