AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The Society of Consulting Marine Engineers & Ship Surveyors was founded to provide a central organisation for Consulting Marine Engineers, Naval Architects and Ship Surveyors. The aims and objectives of the Society include:

• The provision of a central organisation for those engaged in technical maritime affairs.
• The supervision, promotion and protection of the mutual interests of the Society's members.
• 'to encourage improved methods of surveying and drawing up of reports in line with developments and technology.'
• 'to improve and foster in commercial circles a higher sense of importance of ship and engine surveys and to encourage a greater degree of efficiency in those engaged in the same.'
• 'to provide opportunities for discussion amongst members and to give facilities for the reading of papers, the delivery of lectures and for the acquisition and dissemination, by other means, of useful information connected with the profession.'