III. Answer the following questions:

1. What is an engine room?

2. What does “the machinery space” refer to?

3. Where is engine control room situated?

4. Are engine rooms hot, noisy and potentially dangerous?

5. Why does a serious fire hazard exist in the engine room?

6. Engine rooms are typically towards the stern, aren’t they?

7. What do engine rooms employ if equipped with internal combustion or turbine engines?

8. What does an engine room contain?

9. How do the engines get their cooling?

10. What should be done in engine rooms of individuals are normally present in these rooms?

IV. Ask the questions to the following sentences:

1. Engine room referred to as the “machinery space.”

2. Engine rooms are potentially dangerous.

3. Engine rooms contain the generating plant used to power the ships electrics.

4. The requirement for general ventilation and the requirement for sufficient combustion air are quite different.

5. Engine control room is a room for the ship’s machinery control systems.

V. Use the following words and word combinations in sentences of your own:

Lubrication oil purifier, to refer to smth, next to the engine room, ship’s machinery control systems, the presence of flammable fuel, to be monitored continuously, to be used to power the ships electrics, required power levels, to employ means of providing air, acceptable limits, to contain multiple engines, to require cooling via smth, to draw heat from the engines, to seal the mating faces of the pipes.

VI. Translate the text: “a bilge keel”

A bilge keel is a strake, or small keel or blister, running along much of the length of the hull. It is used to reduce the hull's tendency to roll. They are typically fitted one on each side, low down on the side of the hull, so as not to increase the draft of the vessel. In battleships they were often quite large and used as part of the torpedo protection system.

Fig.21. A bilge keel

A bilge keel is often in a "V" shape, welded along the length of the ship at the turn of the bilge. Bilge keels are employed in pairs (one for each side of the ship). A ship may have more than one bilge keel per side, but this is rare. Bilge keels increases hydrodynamic resistance to rolling, making the ship rolls less. Bilge keels are passive stability systems.

VII. Translate the following sentences form Russian into English:

1. Машинное отделение – это отсек, где расположены главный двигатель, генераторы, компрессоры, насосы и другое главное машинное оборудование.

2. На современных судах, рядом с машинным отделением находится звуконепроницаемая, хорошо проветриваемая диспетчерская машинного отделения.

3. Машинное отделение – жаркое, шумное, иногда грязное и потенциально опасное место.

4. Машинное отделение обычно находится на корме.

5. Если машинное отделение оборудовано двигателем внутреннего сгорания или турбинным двигателем, то оно использует средства, обеспечивающие поступление воздуха для работы этих двигателей.