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Large Ships
A ship is commonly defined as having a bow (front) and stern (back), and is built for ocean travel for the purpose of commercial or military transport. Ocean liners, container ships, and destroyers are classified as ships.
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What is a ships staircase called?
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Ladder: On shipboard, all stairs are called "ladders," except for literal staircases aboard passenger liners. Most "stairs" on a ship are narrow and nearly vertical, hence the name. From the Anglo-Saxon hiaeder, meaning ladder.
[Source: http://www.desertanchor.com/glossary.htm]
How long does it take a cargo ship to travel from UK to the US?
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It takes a cargo ship approximately 8 days, 4 hours, 45 minutes to travel from Shanghai, China to Felixstowe, England. The trip covers 5,659 miles.
Where is the helm on a ship?
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The helm is a ship's steering mechanism. So it can be anywhere depending on the type of ship. Usually it will be in the Bridge.
Why are containers moved from ship to ship?
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They do this for the same reason passenger take two or more planes to reach their final destination. Large ships carrying 4200+ containers transport them across large distances, such as oceans. It is not efficient for them to make many stops for each shipment of containers. The containers are offloaded at large ports and are loaded on smaller feeder ships, carrying around 1000 containers which travel to the final destinations.
How much does it cost to run a cruise ship?
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Anywere from about 10 million dollars for a smaller 200 footer to a couple billion for one that is over 1,000 feet long.
What type of pirate was officially licensed by a sovereign to raid and seize goods carried by the ship of 'hostile' nations?
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Ships which carried such a license were technically not pirates at all; they were called "privateers". The license was known as a "letter of marque". Several nations historically issued these (including the United States, in a time period after the movies; it is one of the rights of a sovereign nation asserted in the Declaration of Independence and was used in the two wars against Great Britain); they authorized the ship to prey upon ONLY the ships of enemy nations during time of war.
Historically, many "pirates" started as "privateers", but either overstepped their authority by preying upon neutral ships, OR failed to stop their activities when the nation that had licensed them ended the war(s).
What is a bulk carrier ship?
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Ships that carry cargo in Bulk form. Ex:-Grain,Ore,Cement,Fertilizers etc.
Do you serve in a ship or on a ship?
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Naval convention is you serve 'in' a ship.
An occasional exception - spoken or written - in where the ship's name mixes poorly with 'in'. Thus "...had two years in DIDO and then a short stint on ACTIVE before..." - the latter avoiding the implication of 'in-active' (ACTIVE and OPPORTUNE are two names that come to mind). Using in versus on isn't a hard-and-fast rule but to avoid be thought a landsman, when amongst (Naval) mariners 'in' is the better choice.
Linked to this, ships in the Navy are referred to as 'ships', never as 'boats' - the latter being slightly insulting. However, submarines are correctly referred to as 'boats' not ships (as to why, I don't know).
What happened to the cargo ship Peggy Stewart?
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The fate of the poor peggy stewart was burned as a result of the colonists getting angry... the owner of the ship brought it to MD and the colonists got mad that he payed the tea tax so they would have either hung him on his front doorstep (how neighborly) or he would have to burn the peggy stewart... poor guy
What is the best cruise ship line?
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Royal Caribbean has the largest cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas. It is 5 times larger than the Titanic. It is 20 storeys tall and an impressive 1,187 feet from bow to stern as well as being 208 feet wide.
What is bigger Edmund Fitzgerald or the Titanic?
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The RMS Titanic was just over 150' longer and 100' taller than the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. I'm a huge "Fitz" fan, so I had to look it up.
What is a person who drives a cargo ship called?
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The Captain. Or the pilot.
Captains does not "drive" ships, only in movies. The officer on duty on the bridge is in command and navigating the vessel but the actual steering is normally done by an auto pilot. If in confined waters a crew member called a quartermaster is doing the manual steering.
A pilot is a person joining the vessel and helping the captain planning and navigating in coastal areas and confined waters. A pilot never touch the controls, he only advices but the captain is the ultimate authority and can decide to follow the advice of the pilot or not as he chooses.
Usually the pilot is a former captain with a special knowledge of a port of coastline.
What is a 'wash bulkhead' on a ship?
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The bulkheads are the walls within the ship that separate the different rooms or compartments. Bulkheads are designed to block fire and water from going to other compartments. The outer skin of the ship or boat is called the hull.
Bulkheads in a ship serve several purposes:
- increase the structural rigidity of the vessel,
- divide functional areas into rooms and
- create watertight compartments that can contain water in the case of a hull breach or other leak.
- some bulkheads and decks are fire-resistance rated to achieve compartmentalisation, a passive fire protection measure; see firewall
Deck for poorest ship passengers?
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In the early days of passenger liners the cheapest tickets were in 'steerage', the lowest deck just above the bilges.
What is the lowest level of a ship called?
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The orlop is the lowest deck in a ship (except for very old ships). It is the deck or part of a deck where the cables are stowed, usually below the water line. It has been suggested the name originates from "overlooping" of the cables.
It has also been suggested that the name is a corruption of "overlap," referring to an overlapping, balcony-like half deck occupying a portion of the ship's lowest deck space. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word descends from Dutch overloop from the verb overlopen, "to run (over); extend").
Oxford English Dictionary. Orlop n.. Mar. 2009 Online edition. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
What do the oil tankers do with the oil that they carry?
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Most large oil tankers simply carry the oil from one port to another or from an offshore installation to a depot.
When was the queen Mary built?
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RMS Queen Mary
Ordered: 3 April 1929
Builder: John Brown and Company Clydebank, Scotland
Laid down: 1 December 1930
Launched: 26 September 1934
Christened: 26 September 1934
Maiden voyage: 27 May 1936
Out of service: 1 December 1967 (Retired)
Did people die on the Queen Mary the boat?
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Cosnidering the fact that ocean voyages ( particularily in wartime) can last for weeks, certaininly people died of natural causes during the Lenghty reign of the Ocean Liner Queen Mary, as is the case with Hotels. There were some in-service accidents involving damage-control drills that went awry- a man was killed by a closing emergency door in the shaft tunnel of the engine room during such a test- one hastens to add this is below the water line, such an accident would not have alarmed passengers, or affected them, it would be something like say a maintenance worker in a hotel having a hand truck heavily laden fall on him- bear in mind ships move and are in a dynamic medium, fully exposed to all the weathers. apart from natural causes- like folks passing on in hotel rooms- not an accident, and accidents involving operating personnel, these things were rare and the Ship was never involved in a (Titanic) sized marine accident.
