- Author
- Sprague, C. M. | White, D. | Dolph, B. L.
- Title
- Fire Safety Analysis of the 225' WLB(R) Seagoing Buoy Tender. Final Report.
- Coporate
- Worcester Polytechnic Inst., MA Hughes Associates, Inc., Baltimore, MD Coast Guard, Groton, CT
- Sponsor
- Coast Guard, Groton, CT
- Report
- CG-D-01-97, November 1996, 402 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- DTCG39-94-F-E00379
- Keywords
- fire safety | fire protection | shipboard fires
- Identifiers
- cutter; fire doctrine; buoy tender
- Abstract
- This report documents the results of a comprehensive fire safety analysis of the 225' WLB(R) Seagoing Buoy Tender. The Ship Fire Safety Enginering Methodology (SFSEM) and associated computer program, SAFE version 2.2, were utilized as an analytical tool to perform the analysis. The SFSEm is a probabilistic based fire risk analysis methodology. It is useful to conduct a structured and comprehensive analysis of the performance of all types of surface ships as a fire safety system. The SFSEM provides an integrated framework for analyzing fires on ships in comparison to established fire safety objectives. It accounts for all relevant aspects of fire safety including the growth and spread of fire, the effectiveness of passive design features such as barriers, and active fire protection features such as fixed and portable fire extinguishing systems as well as manual fire suppression.