Large Ships

CATHAY: 13,808 grt; 558 x 70; Built at S.A Cockerill-Ougree, Hoboken, 1957; built as the BAUDOUINVILLE, of Cie Maritime BeIge, Antwerp, Belgium. and bought and renamed by P&O in 1961; Far East service; 209 passengers; sold in 1976 to Chinese owners and renamed KENGHSIN, later renamed SHANGHAI;

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20 foot containers are generally 8 feet wide and 8.5 feet high. Taking that as the dimensions, you have 96 inches x 102 inches x 240 inches.

240/24 means 10 boxes can fit lengthwise. 96/18 and 102/18 mean you could fit 5 boxes wide and 5 boxes high, for a total of 5x5x10 = 250 boxes.

You could also fit 4 boxes placing them lengthwise across the width (96/24). That would still stack 5 high, and then 240/18 = 13 boxes lengthwise. 4x5x13 = 260 boxes, so you could fit 10 more by stacking them that way.

Special types of brass and are used. Brass looks like gold but is slightly duller, steel is a darker iron grey.

Ships are steered by a device called a rudder, which is operated from the helm.

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It's the fin at the rear of a ship used for directing the ship

It is a large 'flap' that is used to steer the ship.

Every vessel has a pivot point or center where it turns the best. The stern of a vessel would be hard to control if the rudder was at the bow. When docking, if the rudder was at the bow, you would never be able to get the stern of the vessel to the dock. Once you got the bow to the dock or pier, there would be no way to control the stern to make it swing. Once the bow is at the dock, with the rudder at the stern, the force of water passing across it from the propeller will push the stern into or away from the dock relative to the angle of the rudder.

There are basically no American passanger ships around because it costs too much and there are too many regulations to register an ocean liner or cruise ship in the United States and it is far cheaper in a country like Bahamas or Panama. Also, the United States does not manufacture many items like passenger ships any more due to the unfriendly business climate towards manufacturing. There is however one cruise ship registered in the United States. That is the Norwegian Cruise Line Pride of America. There is also an old ocean liner built in the 1950's entitled the SS United States of the now defunct United States Lines docked and falling apart in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I've seen it and its a beautiful boat.

The HMHS Britannic sank in the Mediterranian Sea, and it was either hit by a missile or mined by a U-boat and fell onto it's side and sank on it's side. Only 33 people died. The 33 people died when they were chopped up from the propellers because, like the titanic, the Britannic stuck it's stern in the air, and bow first to plunge into the water.The reason the captain left the propellers on was so they could be closer to land. The HMHS Britannic was a hospital ship carrying sick and wounded soldiers away from the battlefield. The Britannic went down whole except for a little chunk of the bow.They still were intact, but are very hard to enter with submarines and people today.

The fastest ocean liner was the "SS United States." Its top speed is 44.7 knots (51.44 miles per hour). It is currently rusting away in the Delaware River near Philadelphia. It has not been in service in many, many years.

The pivot point (or more precisely the "apparent pivot point") is that point along the fore and aft axis of a turning ship, that has no sideways movement, having for reference the surface of the water.

The pivot point is generally at 1/3 ship's length from the bow when the ship is moving ahead, and between ¼ ship's length from the stern and the rudder post when going astern. But if a powerful and effective lateral force is applied at one end of the vessel, the position of the pivot point will shift at about 1/3rd ship's length from the other end of the ship (relative to the applied force).

The Wahine Disaster happened in the Waters of Welligton 1968. 53 of the 733 people died.

It was a very sad time.

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No, of course not! But he is responsible to make sure everyone possible gets off the ship before he moves to safety.

Greenland is not in a region. Greenland is in the territory of Denmark. There are many regions in Greenland.

The iceberg rolls because it is constantly melting, casuing it scenter of mass to change. The ship is help upright by water displacement and the shape of the hull so it does not roll like an iceberg does.

Gather and bring on board prior to sailing (disembarking).

A fleet.

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The largest ocean liner today is Cunards Queen Mary2, which weighs around 150,000 gross tons and is 1,300 feet long. There are 2 or more cruise ships which weigh more than the QM2.

It depends of the compartment of course, some are more important than others, but a general compartment I believe might be termed a 'berth.'