VESSEL EQUIPPED WITH MAIN PROPELLER AND ADDITIONAL PROPELLER AND HYBRID NAVIGATION METHOD THEREFOR Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC B63H20/00 

FIELD: shipbuilding.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to shipbuilding, specifically to ships that have main and additional propellers. Disclosed is a method for controlling a ship configured to obtain propelling force by driving a main propeller with a main engine and provided with an additional propeller and a driving unit therefor, additional propeller is disposed at a ship bottom or at a rising section of the ship bottom, in a position different from the main propeller. Ship is propelled by driving the main propeller in a load condition, and the ship is propelled by driving the additional propeller in an unload condition. Additional propeller can be retracted into the ship. Ship is propelled in a stern direction by driving the additional propeller after the additional propeller is pulled out from the inside to the outside of the ship so that it can be mounted there in an unloaded condition.

EFFECT: reduction of fuel consumption without compromising safe operation of the ship.

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