SMCP ORDERS

1. ORDERS ON BOARD
O Arrival-
Departure
By Rosario Nuñubero Ferrúa

2. What orders are used for berthing and unberthing?
Review
STANDARD ENGINE
ORDERS
MOORING ORDERS
WHEEL ORDERS

3. SMCP FOR BERTHING AND UNBERTHING
GENERAL
Ex. Are fenders on the berth?
UNBERTHING
Are you ready to get underway?
BERTHING
Do you have tension winches

4. ACTIVITY: Read the situations and find out the SMCP
(A2/3.7.1-A2/3.7.2)
1)The fenders have to be ready at the bow
and at the stern
2)You want to know if the fenders are on the
berth.
3)Answer the fenders are not at the quay.
4)They advice you to be ready with your
headlines at the bow and the stern.
5)You report you are going to berth the ship
next to the quay .

5. ACTIVITY II: Use SMCP ( A2/3.7.2- A2/3.7.3 to answer these
questions
1) What leads can you use for berthing?
2) What do you ask to know if the ship is ready
to leave the port?
3) What are the possible answer to report if your
vessel is prepared to leave the port?
4) What phrases do you use to let go all the
mooring lines?
5) What phrase do you use to prepare the
engines and the anchors?

6. ACTIVITY III: Change the common sentences to SMCP
BERTHING
1) We are going to beth on port side:
2) Fasten the lines forwards and aft
3) Keep tension on the spring

7. ACTIVITY IV: Listening (IMO CD) . Copy the sentences
When leaving berth the first orders are:
1) ________________________
2) ________________________
3) ________________________
When the vessel is due to leave ___________(4) are
given by the pilot or by the (5) _____________
When casting off the headline:
6) ______________________
7) ______________________

8. ACTIVITY V: Listening (IMO CD) . Sequence of Casting off
orders
Single up fore and aft
a. Let go your headline
*______________________
* _____________________
b. (fore spring)…
c. (aft spring)…

9. Hard-a-port
Port twenty
Nothing to
starboard
Ease to ten
Starboard
five
STANDARD WHEEL
ORDERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itf8oHnT5UI

10. Ship Handling Orders- SMCP- A2/1
Midships
Port/ Starboard five
Port/ Starboard ten
Port/ Starboard fifteen
Port/ Starboard twenty
Hard –a - port/ starboard
Nothing to port/ starboard
Meet her
Steady
Ease to five/ ten / …
Steady as she goes
Use the SMCP to find
out the meanings
Translate the orders

11. Ship Handling Orders- SMCP- A2/1
Midships
Port/ Starboard five
Port/ Starboard ten
Port/ Starboard fifteen
Port/ Starboard twenty
Hard –a - port/ starboard
Nothing to port/ starboard
Meet her
Steady
Ease to five/ ten / …
Steady as she goes
A la vía
A babor/ estribor 5°…
Todo a babor / estribor
Nada a babor/ estribor
Aguantar
Derecho
Levante hasta…
Derecho como va
Use the SMCP to find
out the meanings

12. ACTIVITY : Listening (IMO CD) . SMCP Meanings
STANDARD WHEEL
ORDERS
MEANINGS
1) EASE HER _______ the amount of _______ and
hold.
2) STEADY
_______the vessel’s swing _________
3) MEET HER
_______ the swing of the vessel’s
______ in a turn.
4) Stand by as she goes When at the moment the intended
_______to steer is ___________

13. Stop engines
Slow ahead
Dead slow
ahead
Full astern
Stand by
engines
STANDARD ENGINE
ORDERS

14. Standard Engine Orders – SMCP- A2/2
Full ahead/ astern
Half ahead/ astern
Slow ahead/ astern
Dead slow ahead/ astern
Stop (port/ stb) engines
Emergency full ahead/ astern
Stand by engine
Finished with engines_
no more maneuvering
Translate the orders

15. Activity: Group work
Create a situation to use SMCP for ship
arrival or departure. Make a 2 minutes
dialog
Participants:
*mates
*Master
*pilot
*helmsman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT68_WKRcBg

16. O SUMMARY: What does a pilotage operation include?

17. What did I learn?