Ship's Engine Start Up 

FAQ Is there video of the outside? See my time lapse here :) - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D77T5x_Wp5c.html No pre lubrication? Yes it was pre lubricated but I didn't film that part (push pre lube button in engine control room) What are the specs of the vessel? This ship is a Bulk Carrier - Its specs are: Length - 291m Beam - 45m Depth - 25.7m Draft - 16.5m DWT - 180,000 tonnes Cargo hold capacity - 199,293 m^3 Engine Maximum continuous rating - 18,660 kW x 91 RPM Is there a gear box for the Main Engine? No, it is direct coupled to the propeller shaft. To achieve revers thrust, the engine is stopped, re-timed and started in the reverse rotation. How many crew on board? 17 personnel in total - 4 x Engineers including the Chief Engineer - 4 deck officers including the Master - 1 x cook - 1 x steward and 7 x integrated ratings. What's with the old wind up phone? This is a sound powered phone - These are located in key areas to allow communication even during times of blackout. Even modern ships still have these. How big are the fuel tanks? Total fuel capacity for Main and Aux Engines + Boiler is roughly 4,333 Cube. (4,333,000 Liters) Not including the marine diesel or low sulfur tanks it has. 4 x Bunker Tanks = 736 m3 + 1,341 m3 + 1,347 m3 + 736 m3 1 x Service Tank = 85 m3 1 x Sett Tank - 88 m3 Why is the wheel loose at 3:10? The axial movement which appears to make the handle look loose is a design feature to allow the operator to use the valve wheel as a hammer when the valve is initially cracked opened. Also used to seat the valve closed. How long does start up take? It takes roughly 1 hour to get the ships plant ready for sea. Is that a 2-stroke engine? The main engine is a 2 stroke while the generators are 4 stroke. Why isn't the process automated? Cost Don't they wash their overalls? Yes, every day. You can go through 3 pairs in a day. Unfortunately heavy fuel oil does stain white overalls and due to minimum manning all the maintenance is shared between 3 engineers. :P

Having been retired after 45 years at sea, last 19 as chief engineer, on tankers of all sizes this bought back so many happy memories. I love the sound of the blower winding up and down. Cheers happy sailing.

Let’s appreciate the minds of the engineers, mechanics, and machinists who were able to imagine and bring these things to life. Something about this is very magical, like steampunk in a way.

Thank you for letting us hear it. And not some annoying music

The last ship I sailed on as an engineer had a Sulzer engine very similar to this. I went through this procedure many many times. Good memories!

I've been waiting for Doug Demuro to go over the "quirks and features".

The complexity of these systems and the ability of man to design, build and make it all perfectly functional never ceases to amaze…

You guys keep the engine room good and clean. No mess around the auxiliary engines.

I knew there was a reason I couldn’t sleep and got out of bed at 315...it was time to learn to start a ship!

At last a pretty comprehensive start up procedure video. Yes a few things omitted for simplification but it gives the viewer an insight into what is expected of the engineer on duty. Only those with no engine room experience will give it negative reviews. well done.

It's so nice to actually hear all the sounds! No annoying music!

Had no idea that it was such an intricate process - wouldn’t even know where to start :) Much respect to all those involved in the shipping industry :) This makes me grateful for my double push key fob. ✌️❤️🇨🇦

As a Ex Engineer on large Diesel Motor Ships this brings back a lot of memories, just think when we had a breakdown (not often I must say) what it was like repairing these monsters at Sea.

Very clean engine room. The start procedure is quite a bit different from lighting off a steam system (obviously). My experience was with steam systems, so that's why I watched this. The generator panels have also advanced a long way since manual synchronization. Thanks for the post !

A lovely symphony of mechanical, pneumatic and electrical sounds!!

I didn't know people had to do so much work to bring the cellphone i ordered from China.

I approve of any engine large enough to require stairs to access the cylinder heads.

Just think of the brainpower that went into designing all that and making it work. Very impressive.

Hun"..what time we leaving? Me...tomorrow morning Hun..where you going? Me..to start the ship don't wanna be late.

This brought back my memories as Chief Engineer, back 80s to 2000, I worked on B&W, MAN, SULZER, DOXFORD (old, ! and as 3rd & 4th engr), Werkspoor medium speed, Pielstick etc. Thanks for posting, I would be lost with the modern technology now 😊

Imagine if you had to do this every day to start your car to go to work. lol

There's something special about that engine turning on dead slow. Music to the ears. Can actually hear every unit firing. Hectic as it may be, I miss this life.

That was great! I used to work with a 4200hp stand-by generator, that prepped power for the forced draft fans and other loads to make steam for 2 DeLaval 12.5 Mw steam turbines. Love big power! Yea, I know, "That's what she said." Thanks for the vid.

Remember folks: without such engines none of you would be able to watch this video on your cool smartphone!

After many years in a 100% steam turbine navy engine room I found this very interesting. While it looked like this one engineer had everything in control we would have 4 running over three levels in both startup or operation. Quite a bit different.

I'm giving it all she's got, captain!!!!

If I went on an ocean cruse, this is the part of the ship I would most like to see; and they'd probably do their level best to keep me outa there.

Very impressive. Thank you, sir. I was also impressed at how clean everything was.

Starting in the US Navy and then into the civilian market I was an aircraft mechanic for over thirty years, working on everything from light planes and piston powered helicopters to Airbus 320's and Boeing 747's. In spite of all that I cannot help but look upon this man's job with a certain amount of jealousy and regret. If I were a young man again, looking for a promising and specialized career, I think I would have been a ship's engineer over aviation. Don't ask me to explain. I can't.

As an old Marine Engineer of 40 years experience this this brought back memories. Just a point - we never did test at anything resembling half ahead - just start in the ahead direction and also in the astern direction.

As a 24 year old junior engineer, who's only worked yet in pre-1980 built ships, this makes it look fancy

It never fails to impress me how much thought and effort must’ve been involved in order to create these complicated behemoths of machinery.

Thanks for the video. very interesting start procedure

Highly skilled engineers and staff ! When I went on cruise ship had no idea about this !

Very interesting video. I have been a Deck Officer for quite some time and never really imagined how everything works on the Engine Room before sailing and realized why Chief Engineer always insisted to take it easy with the Telegraph. 😅😅 Good job mate! 👌👌

I served in the US Navy and worked in an engine room with 2 D type boilers. Those diesel engines and the cleaner engine room are impressive!!

Best engine room startup preparation video ever. Thanks for sharing!

Wow this takes me back a few years (nearly 40 tbh). My first trip as a cadet was on an old Shell 'A' boat with a Doxford opposed piston engine. Two pistons in one cylinder, how crazy does that sound. We had a scavenge fire coming out of the Suez into the Red Sea. Happy days.

Hats off to the fine men that spend their time in such a working place and keep their ships sailing to deliver us our consumer goods. My Toyota starts at a touch of a button and was delivered to me from Japan after firing up a ship a like that..

Thank you for the trip 👍 There's been a long time since i last heard these sounds.

This brings back a lot of memories for me from my time at sea. In my day there was no air conditioned sound proofed control room, but the rest of it looks familiar. I used to like the Doxford engines, you could actually see those working.

I could watch videos like this for hours

ship is ready for the next port of call, what a beautiful sound when the engine were start to blow then the continues cranking and the humming of the auxiliary...a nice musical instrument for us in engine department....

Looks like a lot of work :P

Hey Jeff Love your videos,brings back memories I was a second engineer on Israeli ships I am retired now,waiting for the next video Keep it up!

This was really interesting to watch. Thank you.

I love these vids not just because they are cool as hell, but also because the comments are full of folks who think this is just as amazing as I do, not to mention also folks who have first hand experience in these environments. Very enjoyable!

Beautiful. Thank you for the upload. These machines truly do have a soul. The Aedeptus Mechanicus are right.

Cool with all the systems and subsystems that are involved with running on those engines. Kind of like a Mainframe, where you have a lot of different components all doing a different part of the job which makes them reliable.

It is much more easier to get an aircraft from cold to engine start-up to takeoff to be airborne towards the touchdown to the cut off of the engines and switching on the APU until the cutoff of the APU for the stopover on the airport as to start-up a big ocean liner or any other big ship today and I have my highest level of respect for these people who are doing it! Thank you so much for sharing this very interesting and fascinating video here which I had watched it during my resting time in the resting compartment of my Boeing 747-8F flying westbound in an altitude of about 40.000ft above ground towards my destination! Have a nice time and lovely greetings from Captain Sarah Sutter (Boeing 747-400F/Boeing747-8F)

Just incredible - that these machines can be conceived and built !

A wonderful short movie describing full concept.. A perfect story of all engine room warriors 👌🔧

How many marine engineer watching here and like sound on engines . Hit like . World would almost freeze without sailors. Happy sailing and calm seas . Cheers to sailors and my fellow man specially marine engineers🌊🌊

I had an 83 Dodge with a 318 that was almost this complicated to get running.

My first view of a ships engine.This is so beautyfull.never imagined so complex

I can only imagine the smell of heavy duty steel, seawater and diesel oil by watching the video. Heaven on earth!

The amazing thing is that fifty bazillion HP MAN engine sits there and does nothing that you can see while propelling a ship through the ocean. Because ENGINEERING.

one of my life goals is when I get my own place, I want to get a scrapped one of these huge instrument/light/button master panels and clean it up and use it as an active wall decoration.

Damn the engineering behind all this is absolutely insane!

Blimey, reminds me of the turbine hall at the power stations I once worked. The size is incredible!

I kept waiting for Scotty Kilmer to jump out there and point to an injector and call it a spark plug.

Her: my parents are gone for an hour.... *me: I’ll be there in 45

The question about the dirty overalls; this shows me that this man is doing his job. a person with clean overalls is not doing his job in my book (worked engine rooms in the navy for around nine years. the only time my works was clean was she i went to the engine room in the morning). thanks for a very outstanding video (worked steam and gas turbines; never worked on a diesel power plant)

Wow! I am in awe. Thank you for posting.

I can remember being part of a 3 man engine commissioning team from MAN Diesel on a sea trail with one of these prime movers, including cylinder pressure testing when running and being right next to two metre high trail of sparks, and standing next to the turbo (about 2 metre diameter and 10000 rpm) during a deliberate stall - it felt like a bomb going off. All sounds fun but we were working 21 hours a day over a long weekend and the engine builders fitted fuel valves incorrectly that meant we had to shut the engine down - resulting in a 220 metre long container ship being a drift in the North Sea near Hamburg without main propulsion for several hours while we worked out why the engine was not getting fuel.

A far cry from the likes of the Titanic and other early ships! WOW!!!! :)

Thank you, this video brought me good memories. I hope some day go back to the sea

This entire process makes preparing a ship with canvas sails a whole lot easier to handle. The only positive observation is how clean the engines and the surrounding areas are kept. This ship and its labour intense engine testing and starting routines are incredibly manual procedures. The real convincing item is when a crew member picks up a phone and then hand cranks it to get a connection. The old American Indian smoke signals seem so much more modern and an easier way to communicate ! By now it is presumed this ship is sitting somewhere waiting for the scrapper's torches.

Very cool! But a 60 Hz refresh rate on the camera with 50 Hz lighting, perhaps?

Cool video. I now have alot more respect for scotty from star trek..!

It went from sounding like a steam locomotive to a jet turbine, so cool!

Wow - the noise of those massive engines 🤩

I remember my first embarkation on a tanker ship, the engine room seems pretty similar, even the alarm sound is same. The amazing thing is, when the order is given usually from the bridge, the whole ship trembles like it's gonna tear apart from that massive engine producing 25000 SHP. BTW those who are wondering there isn't an actual button to start it up, rather there is a button that allows fuel to be ignited in the combustion chamber. Without the fuel pump to boost the fuel and the sparks to ignite it and turn the cylinders, no power from the main engine. It's a whole network down there, that even gave my Second Engineer a run for his money. Well remembering all of that made me feel kinda strange....

4:12 here’s where they start the engine

That is serious engineering. Beautiful!

Thank you! My dad and grandad were both stokers. I don't think my grandfather ever got his ticket in diesel but when dad moved to the USA he got his ticket in diesel.

A captivating vid/story, thank you very much! I lervs ships!

Awwesome vid. Thought it was a little paltry till 6:15. Those towers n copper pipes arnt pistons n air headers. Their injectors n fuel lines. The pistons are under those! What a beast of a donk! Correct me if my topology is wrong, but yep. Epic engine. Also, respect for the crisp white jumpsuit with the oily arse handwipe zone. Im pretty sure god gave engineers arses to wipe their greasy hands on.

Thank you for sharing this great informative footage👍 I love large industrial vessels including container ships and I shoot videos of them in action. Your awesome video helped me understanding more about container ships😃

This didn't bring back any memories for me but I throughly enjoyed it non the less.

Awesome video mate. I'm a Chief Engineer and I also do Seafarer's lifestyle in my channel. And of course I include the best part... Shore Leave!!

'I cannot change the laws of physics, Captain! A've got to have thirty minutes'.

Navegue por 25 años continuos ,me retire hace 11años y ese sonido me trajo muchos recuerdos .

Oh man... That's a dream come true... Thanks so much Digger...

That was very interesting. Makes me want to change my career decision.

That steering gear is moving a rudder bigger than my house!!

This is not just Main Engine Start up procedure. This is ship's engine room getting ready for departure from port or sea. All additional auxiliary systems are started, checked and brought online before Main Engine is given a kick start. These are some of the checks as per pre-departure checklist, which is a requirement for every ship.

These grandparents are from the foundations of real technology, not the virtual world..the giants of hard work and original technology

*CAN I SWAP THIS INTO MY CIVIC?*

Main engine full ahead sounds like my washing machine. I really need to get that looked at 😜

Without these Engineers & mechanics, the ship goes NOWHERE!

Awesome!! Brings back a lot of memories

Sooo. You need to start the engine, to provide the power to start the engine, that provides the compressed air to start the engine?

"what's your job title"? Hi-"Master engine starter tech PhD" 😂

This brings back many memories, I can even even get that engine room smell

These people are true engineers,it's not just the main engine, the amount of auxiliary equipment, steering,generator, water and fuel,heating ventilation refrigeration the list goes on.

There's nothing quite like having an exhaust system as large as your engine

When someone starts boasting about how much horsepower their car has I would just pull this bad boy out of my garage

I love the smell of a big diesel engine in full roar. That's the smell of POWER!

what a complex procedure.. hats off to the workers in these engineering field