Bridge
M/V Golden Kimisis, 1974. The bridge, first officer at the helm, the captain checking out nearby traffic. This is good view of a modern (1973) freighter's control station. The helmsman has a gyroscopic compass, while the periscope on the ceiling shows the conventional magnetic compass. The telephone is for communication with the engine room, but there is also a conventional "telegraph" to transmit speed instructions, whose readout is the dial on the ceiling. In case of total loss of electrical power, there's a voice tube (in the center of the picture).
Most of the time at sea, the ship is on autopilot, keeping to a predetermined course. There is always an officer and a sailor on the bridge, in rotating sifts. My uncle, the ship's captain, always took the graveyard shift, midnight to 6:00 AM.
There was a radar system, but during the entire 10 weeks I never saw anyone use it.
Nikon S3, 50mm, Ektachrome, Hell s3900 scanner
Bridge
M/V Golden Kimisis, 1974. The bridge, first officer at the helm, the captain checking out nearby traffic. This is good view of a modern (1973) freighter's control station. The helmsman has a gyroscopic compass, while the periscope on the ceiling shows the conventional magnetic compass. The telephone is for communication with the engine room, but there is also a conventional "telegraph" to transmit speed instructions, whose readout is the dial on the ceiling. In case of total loss of electrical power, there's a voice tube (in the center of the picture).
Most of the time at sea, the ship is on autopilot, keeping to a predetermined course. There is always an officer and a sailor on the bridge, in rotating sifts. My uncle, the ship's captain, always took the graveyard shift, midnight to 6:00 AM.
There was a radar system, but during the entire 10 weeks I never saw anyone use it.
Nikon S3, 50mm, Ektachrome, Hell s3900 scanner