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Melville Handbook

I. Master's Welcome Aboard Letter

• Preface
• Other Sources of Information
• History of R/V Melville

III. Vessel Layout & Description

• 03 Deck
• 02 Deck
• 01 Deck
• Main Deck
• 1st Platform
• Hold Level

• Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
• A-Frames
• After Steering
• Air Conditioning and Heating
• Biological Sampling
• Boats
• Boatswain Locker
• Bulwark Doors
• Cable Raceways
• Capstans
• Chemicals
• Computer
• Compressed Air
• Cranes
• Customs
• Davits
• Deck Loading
• Deck Tie-downs
• Doppler Log
• Drains
• EchoSounding
• Electrical System
• Explosives
• Flood Lights
• Fresh Water
• Gases
• Gasoline
• Geological Sampling Equipment
• Geophysical Sampling Gear
• Gyro
• Hatches
• Hydraulic System
• Hoods
• Internal Well
• Instrument Wells
• Magazine
• Magnetometer
• Masts
• Propulsion
• Radioactive Material
• Refrigeration and Freezing
• Scuba Diving
• SEA BEAM
• Seawater
• Sheaves & Blocks
• Shipping
• Stern Ramp
• Storage
• Supplies and Equipment
• Uncontaminated Seawater
• Vans
• Winches
• Wire

• Shipboard Technical Support
• Resident Marine Technicians
• Shipboard Computer Group
• Geophysical Engineer
• Oceanographic Data Facility
• Geological Data Center

• Amateur Radio (HAM)
• Cellular Telephone System
• Data Communications
• Depth Recording
• Direction Finding Equipment
• Facsimile Equipment
• Gyro Compass
• Hand-Held Radios
• HF/SSB Communications
• Internal Communications
• Navigation Outfit
• Radar
• Satellite Communication Systems
• Search Lights
• Speed Log
• VHF Communications

• Boats
• Emergency Drills
• Medical Matters
• Personal Floatation Devices
• Shipboard Safety
• Man Overboard

• Housekeeping
• Mess Hall
• Ship's Crew

IX. Scientific Berthing Plan

• Berthing Plan (pdf)

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