Commercial Vessel Safety

Information Sheet
No: 30 – Drawing Submission Requirements

Use this Information Sheet as a checklist before submitting drawings and schematics to
Commercial Vessel Safety for plan approval. Submissions not meeting the requirements
detailed below will be rejected.

When making an Application for the Initial Survey of a Commercial Vessel, the application
form together with fees and a paper copy of a General Arrangement drawing of the vessel
must be submitted. All further drawings may be submitted in paper or a digital form.

Where drawings for approval are submitted as paper copies, three copies of the drawings
are to be submitted. One copy will be retained for the Department’s records, the other
copies will be returned to the applicant after assessment for distribution to the vessel
builder and to the vessel owner.

Where digital drawings are to be submitted, the applicant must supply an e-mail address
on the application form. A RepliWeb account will be created for the applicant for which
the login details will be emailed to them. An applicant can then submit drawings in an
unprotected PDF format for review. Once plan approval is complete and after
electronically certified copies have been returned a single approved paper copy of each
drawing is to be printed by the applicant and returned to the Department.

Repliweb Managed File Transfer (RMFT) allows registered users to exchange files with
other RMFT users or hosts in a secure environment that is does not have file size limits
like normal email. Commercial Vessel Safety section is registered with the Department of
Transport Repliweb server using the email address cvsplans@transport.wa.gov.au.
Correspondence and files sent to this email address via the Repliweb server from a
registered user is not limited in size the way normal emails are and can only be accessed
by a cvsplans registered administrator.

Once your files have been sent to us via the repliweb service they will be electronically
stamped received and forwarded to the Marine Surveyor allocated to your job. Further
correspondence and drawings may be direct with the Marine Surveyor, however
applications will not be allocated to a Marine Surveyor until all required drawings have first
been received via the cvsplans@transport.wa.gov.au repliweb account or email address
and reviewed by the Manager Survey Functions.

Marine House, 1 Essex Street, Fremantle, Western Australia, 6160

GPO Box C102, Perth WA 6839
Tel: 1300 723 226 Fax: (08) 9435 7803
www.transport.wa.gov.au
ABN 27 285 64 3255
Content of drawings shall comply with the requirements outlined below.

1. All Drawings and Schematics must comply with the following:

• Have a title block in the bottom right hand corner, clearly identifying

Project name
Drawing name
Drawing / Schematic number
Revision Number
Drawing scale
Date
• Include a revision list summarising previous modifications made to the drawing
• Use a standard scale – 1:1, 1:2, 1:5, 1:10, 1:20, 1:25, 1:50, 1:100
• Drawing to be folded to A4 size with title block uppermost
• Have a blank space at least 100 mm wide x 70 mm high immediately above the title
block for the Department stamp.
• Have all labelling in English.
• Use SI units
• Presentation to be in accordance with Australian Standard (AS)1100.101 – 1992,
“Technical Drawing Part 101 – General Principles”.

2. General Arrangement (GA) drawing(s) must show the following:

• Profile of the vessel (both port and starboard sides if they are significantly different).
• Plan of each deck.
• Table of vessel principal particulars indicating the vessels dimensions to be used for
scantling calculations, namely:
NSCV Class (e.g.; 2B)
Overall length, (m)
Measured length, (m)
Moulded beam, (m)
Displacement for scantling calculations (at deepest operational draft), (t)
Waterline length at scantling displacement, (m)
Waterline beam at scantling displacement, (m)
Hull draft at scantling displacement, (m)
Vessel speed at scantling displacement, (kts)
Number of passengers and crew
• Bulkhead locations. Watertight bulkheads are to be labelled and watertight doors to
shown.
• Frame locations and spacings.
• Access ways, steps and ladders.
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Marine House, 1 Essex Street, Fremantle, Western Australia, 6160
GPO Box C102, Perth WA 6839
Tel: 1300 723 226 Fax:(08) 9435 7803
www.transport.wa.gov.au
ABN 27 285 64 3255
 • Bulwarks and railings. Minimum height and spacing of bulwark and rails to be noted in
the drawing.
• All spaces to be labelled indicating their use.
• The location and sill/coaming height of all hatches, doors and removable panels.
• Seats, Berths, Toilets.
• Navigation lights.
• Freeing ports.
• Location of all ventilation grills and closing devices.
• Deck machinery (windlass, fishing gear etc.).
• Fixed buoyancy and ballast.
• Escapes.
• All tanks.
• Anchor and chain lockers.
• Liferafts and floating off buoyancy.
Note: If any of the above details are not shown on the General Arrangement but appear on another
drawing submitted for approval, then a note referring to the drawing shall appear on the General
Arrangement.

3. Construction drawing(s) must include the following:

• Structural arrangement drawings generally comprising Profile and Decks, Bulkheads,
Sections and Superstructure showing;

The location and extent of watertight and structural bulkheads

The location and spacing of transverse floors, web frames and frames
The location, spacing and extent of longitudinal girders and stringers.
The extent of plating, location of butts, local increases in thickness
Superstructure structural arrangement
• Detail structural drawings showing Section frames, brackets, pillars, knees and
structural member end connections.
• Display the good shipbuilding principles of CONTINUITY and ALIGNMENT.
• Location and size of all windows and mullion detail.
• Thickness of all window glass.
• Fuel tank construction detail.
• Location and extent of all integral tanks.
• Location of all hatches and watertight doors.
• Location of all removable panels.
• Compensation for the loss of inertia in way of cut-outs.
• All structural members are to be clearly dimensioned.
• The size of plating panels is to be clearly shown.

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Marine House, 1 Essex Street, Fremantle, Western Australia, 6160
GPO Box C102, Perth WA 6839
Tel: 1300 723 226 Fax: (08) 9435 7803
www.transport.wa.gov.au
ABN 27 285 64 3255
 • Details of all stairs and ladders showing the dimensions of the rise and going.
• A weld or laminate schedule as applicable.
• All materials must be fully specified and their engineering properties shown on the
construction drawings.

4. Piping schematics must include the following:

• One system per schematic including;
Bilge system
Fuel
Black and grey water
Fresh water
• Show the location, size and type of all valves.
• Show the location size and type of all piping including any flexible sections.
• Show the location and size of all through hull suctions and discharges.

5. Fuel Tank details must include the following:

• Construction, material details, scantlings, baffles support.
• Dimensions and arrangement of fillers, vents and pick-ups.
• Details of inspection openings, means to measure contents and drains.
• Electrical bonding and earthing details.

6. Machinery details must include the following:

• Shaft line arrangement
• Distances between bearings and supports
• Engine power, speed, gearbox ratio and shaft dimensions

• Coupling dimensions.

• Rudder, rudder shaft, bearing and tiller dimensions

• Propeller details (No. of blades, diameter, pitch, blade area ratio)

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Marine House, 1 Essex Street, Fremantle, Western Australia, 6160
GPO Box C102, Perth WA 6839
Tel: 1300 723 226 Fax: (08) 9435 7803
www.transport.wa.gov.au
ABN 27 285 64 3255
7. Structural Fire Protection must include the following:
• Extent of all structural fire protection
• Specification of structural fire protection material

• Fixing details to bulkheads / deck head

8. Welding schedule must include the following:

• Detail the weld required at every major structural connection in the vessel, eg; web
frames, frames, girders, stringers, plating etc.

9. Laminating schedule must include the following:

• Extent of laminates
• Sequence of plies
• Resin ratios
• Overlaps
• Cored and solid areas

10. Electrical schematics must include the following (for systems over 32V):
• Electrical equipment
• Switches
• Protection devices
• Emergency power arrangements.

11. Lifting appliances must include the following:

• Construction details and component certificates for boat builder fabricated cranes (see
CVS Information sheet No. 58).
• Capacity certificate for cranes purchased from recognised manufacturer
• Crane supporting structural details
• Designed safe working load
• Load versus reach chart or graph modified as applicable for marine application and
dynamic loads.

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Marine House, 1 Essex Street, Fremantle, Western Australia, 6160
GPO Box C102, Perth WA 6839
Tel: 1300 723 226 Fax: (08) 9435 7803
www.transport.wa.gov.au
ABN 27 285 64 3255
12. Passenger vessels over 25m and all vessels over 35m require:
• A Damage Control Plan showing: Boundaries of watertight compartments;
openings and means for closure; arrangements for correcting list.
• A Fire Control Plan showing: Location and type of passive and active fire
safety systems, control stations, location of divisions, fire alarms, fire detection
and extinguishing systems, fire extinguishing appliances, access to
compartments and decks, ventilating systems, location of international shore
connection, fire suits, breathing apparatus.
• Emergency Plan showing: Assembly stations, signals escape routes,
evacuation routes, location of life-saving equipment, flares, EPIRB, lifebuoys
immersion suits. This may be combined with the Fire Control Plan on vessels
less than 50m.
For further information on acquiring a “Repliweb” account for the submission of plans please
contact the Manager Survey Functions through the Counter Service Coordinator on 1300 723 226..

For all other Commercial Vessel enquiries please call 1300 723 226.

Director,
Commercial Vessel Safety

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Marine House, 1 Essex Street, Fremantle, Western Australia, 6160
GPO Box C102, Perth WA 6839
Tel: 1300 723 226 Fax: (08) 9435 7803
www.transport.wa.gov.au
ABN 27 285 64 3255