A no picture quiz

[j.sabourn]

Maybe is a trick question and the answer is none , you don’t sail on a ship you sail in it. JS
Or maybe the word types refers to the type of person , there again that could be construed of sailing on a person and the mind boggles for normal people , but ok for some of the UCL types. JS

[John Arton]

This quiz seems to be going nowhere so. I'll give the answer which will give you an interesting bit of trivia to use in the pub next time you visit.
According to international load line regulations that assign freeboard to merchant vessels, there are only two types of vessels,
Type A, defined as any vessel designed solely for the carriage of liquid cargo in bulk and that has only small openings in the freeboard deck capable of being closed watertight.
Type B, any other vessel that is not type A.
Within the regulation there are two tables of freeboard to be assigned, type A and type B. Both this tables are designed around standard vessels having a block coefficient of 0.86, a beam/length ratio of 1/15 and a standard amount of ford and aft sheer.
Both vessel types can have their freeboard reduced (and hence cargo capacity increased) by increasing sheer fore and aft by raising bow height by an enclosed watertight forecastle and a similar raised sheer after, an increase in deck tumblehome or the addition of certain watertight constructions on the freeboard deck .
Rgds
J.A.

[j.sabourn]

Would have been closer to the answer if just said 2, open and closed shelter deck. JS

[Ivan Cloherty]

#22 eeh Bah gum lad, bain't be no wonder there be one ov dem sparsity of replies

[Austin Carl Largan]

Cunard liners in the 60's including the old queens, then cargo ships.....70's, jumped ship over to the Americans and worked in the North Sea on construction barges building oil rigs and laying pipelines for the Brits. After that I was with the U.S. offshore supply vessel industry as port engineer, (in Mexico for 15 years) then on to government contracted vessels, 10 years in the antarctic on a research ice breaker (best years of my life) and 5 years contracted with the US military based in Guam, S.Korea and Zamboanga P.I. on civilian manned, navy controlled vessels carrying out various military assignments as directed by the navy.

All in all it has been a long and interesting trail. The antarctic was so amazing that I delayed retiring until I was 72 years old and then I only did so because I was afraid of becoming a medical liability. I wish it could all happen over again.

Austin

[happy daze john in oz]

The term 'old queens' may not sit too well with some ex UCL crew.

As to the pipe line.

Some years ago there was an article in the papers, Sahara Pipeline laid by 200 men.

One lady from non English speaking background thought it said

'Sara Pipa liney' laid by 200 men and asked where she could find them.

[j.sabourn]

#25 Austen you must have been one of the many sporting baseball cap. Chequered shirt, Jeans or Dungarees, and Red Wing Boots. Wandering round Aberdeen at times ? Cheers JS

[Austin Carl Largan]

Yes, but with a British accent……..

[Des Taff Jenkins]

HI Austin.
But with an American twang.
Des

[J Gowers]

Or as you could be called in the North Sea drilling industry a 'Plastic Yank'. Some one who worked on the North Sea rigs who wore American gear , spoke with a slightly US accent but had never been near the USA. There were a few of them about on rigs.
As far as I remember we all worked on a rig not in it same when I was in the MN but worked on ships.