BS ISO 3730:2012

This standard BS ISO 3730:2012 Shipbuilding and marine structures. Mooring winches is classified in these ICS categories:

• 47.020.50 Deck equipment and installations

This International Standard specifies requirements for the design, operation, performance and acceptance tests of automatic and non-automatic mooring winches, with hydraulic, electric or steam drive, which fulfil the functions of manoeuvring, holding and storing mooring ropes on a single drum.

Such winches can also be used for warping purposes. See Table 1.

Table 1

Functions

Operation	Non-automatic mooring winch	Automatic mooring winch
Mooring	On drum
Rope storing	On drum
Tension-maintaining through brake	On drum
Warping	Optional on warping-end or on drum
Tension-maintaining through automatic device		On drum