Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Captain Cook Graving Dock, Sydney: The electrical and mechanical installation
- In
- Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
- Imprint
- vol. 24, no. 4-5, Apr-May 1952, pp. 97-109
- Description
This paper, No.1082, originated in the Sydney Division of The Institution, and was presented during The Engineering Conference, 1952 at Sydney.
The author, E. C. Gardiner, AMIEAust, is Senior Electrical Engineer (Design Section), Commonwealth Department of Works and Housing, Sydney.- Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to describe in some detail the nature of the electrical and mechanical installation, with a few comments on the design, construction and operating characteristics.
It should be understood that the design for plant and equipment directly concerned with the ship in dock, had to meet the requirements of Admiralty Specifications, and any modifications involved were strictly to suit local conditions. Therefore, the installation in Sydney follows closely on the lines of those found in similar bases used by the Royal Navy throughout the world.
In a graving dock designed to fulfil the demands of wartime naval operations, the electric power for the control of mechanisms associated with the docking and servicing of units of the fleet, must of necessity be maintained by an efficient and flexible distribution system.