Why are striker plates fitted below sounding pipes?

A plate installed in a storage tank, at a point directly beneath the drop tube or gauging port. The purpose of the plate is to absorb the impact of repeated insertions of gauge sticks, and to help dissipate the impact of product being dropped into the tank.

What is the purpose of sounding pipe?

A pipe which leads down to almost the bottom of a tank to enable the depth of liquid to be measured by a sounding tape.

What are the standard requirements for the construction of sounding pipe in a ship?

A minimum bore of 32 mm is in general required for sounding pipes; but where they pass through refrigeration spaces, to allow for icing, a minimum bore of 65 mm is required where the temperature is at 0 °C or less.

What is tank sounding?

What is Sounding? Checking the level of the fluid in a tank is considered as part of sounding process on ship. The final sounding value of the tank is the total quantity of fluid (oil, bilge, sludge, or water) inside a ship’s tank.

What do you put in a marine sounding pipe?

Apply the water finding paste onto the sounding tape in the area of estimated depth. Drop the sounding tape inside the sounding pipe. Ensure the bob strikes the striker plate at the bottom of the tank. Coil up the tape looking up for the impression.

Where does the sounding pipe start on a ship?

On ships we use some sort of remote mechanical arrangement. It is called sounding pipe. Look at the diagram of a tank. This shows a vertical pipe towards the after end of the tank. This pipe starts from the deck (Remote location) and goes right to the bottom of the tank/compartment.

What is a sounding pipe in a tank?

Sounding pipe. A pipe which leads down to almost the bottom of a tank to enable the depth of liquid to be measured by a sounding tape.

Where does a sounding pipe end on a deck?

A striking pad must be located on the tank bottom beneath the pipe. Sounding pipes are to end above freeboard deck in easily accessible places and are to be fitted with efficient, permanently attached, metallic closing appliances.