To allow 5 TEU in line the hatch/hold will need to be >100ft 4-1/2".
The 76mm spacing comes from 3". The original container o/a lengths were 40ft, then a 20ft half length was 19' 10-1/2" o/a. There were 3" blocks...
Yeah, it should be Olympic II. ;)
I've totally forgotten how to do logarithms, yet I must have spent six or seven years doing them every day. Someone handed me a slide rule a few...
I remember back in the sixties when I was an apprentice, they always referred to "Shipbuilding and Engineering" and based on what you have just...
Times have changed. For many years now, a lot of large ships and structures are of modular construction. Obviously there has to be dimensional...
The small vessel landing at Iona is one of the "Loch" class. They do not have bow doors or a bow visor, just the two part folding ramp at each...
Here's a wild docking, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4jiXJbDwko
I was on this ferry many times, but not in this kind of sea. She was built in Norway and was purchased, on the stocks, by Calmac to do their new...
I think I am begining to understand why we don't re-order DH36, given that we are three months from the steel supplier. AH is basically...
Part of my job is sending plate sections out to repair and make modifications to an FPSO, a converted oil tanker. For all the hull plate and all...
Normalizing is a heat treatment that stress relieves the steel. I'm not 100% certain but I think that only DH steel 1" and thicker gets...
Chapel Steel stock AH36 in the control rolled condition, DH36 in both the control rolled and normalized condition and EH36 in the normalized...
I think the difference is in the finishing and the hardness testing, but I'm not an expert, even if I've worked with these for years. It may be...
They probably have the same rights to claim salvage as any other assisting vessels. I remember an RNLI crew getting a salvage payment when I was...
