Bridge wings

[John Arton]

Here is a pic of a Maersk Triple E container ship, totally boring but what struck me was the size of the enclosed bridge wings, you could get serious foot sores just walking from the centre of the wheel house out to the bridge wing and never even get wet!!!!
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rgds
JA

[Captain Kong]

The Enclosed wheel house on the `Queen Mary 2` is 45 metres, or 148 feet, or over 49 yards.


The Maersk Triple E Container ship is,,,,, Beam: 59 m (194 ft). or nearly 65 yards..

That is BIG

They will probably have bikes in the wheelhouse to get around on.
Cheers
Brian

A lonely ship to be on.

Triple E class container ship Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller

The Triple E-class vessels are operated by a crew of 13, while the even larger Globe-class requires 31 on board.
Class overview

Builders: Daewoo Shipbuilding
Operators: Maersk
Preceded by: Mærsk E class container ship
Building: 11
Planned: 31 ships ordered
Completed: 20
Active: 20

General characteristics

Type: Container ship
Tonnage: 165,000 DWT
Displacement: 55,000 tonnes (empty)[1]
Length: 400 m (1,312 ft)
Beam: 59 m (194 ft)
Draft: 16 m (52 ft)
Propulsion: Twin MAN engines, 42912.7 hp each
Speed: N/A
Capacity: 18,340 TEU
Notes: Cost $185 million[1]

The Maersk Triple E class container ships comprise a family of very large container ships (more than 18,000 TEU).

With a length of 400 m (1,312 ft), when they were built, they were the largest container ships in the world, but were subsequently surpassed by even larger ones such as CSCL Globe.[2][3]

In February and June 2011, Maersk awarded Daewoo Shipbuilding two US$1.9 billion contracts ($3.8bn total) to build twenty of the ships.


The wheelhouse on QUEEN MARY 2, below. with Commodore Ron Warwick.

[Ivan Cloherty]

Nothing better than being on an open bridge wing traversing the south pacific on watch just in shorts( tramping men only apparently) and a clear blue sky, or on night watch with millions of stars as your overhead curtain. Enclosed bridge wings Uuuuugh!

[Louis the fly]

I have sailed on a few ships with a similar bridge although not as long. Painting was hard work , scaffolding underneath , stages over the side swinging about in the wind. In the shipyard they would have cherry pickers or the whole section lifted on board in one complete unit.

Brian with a beard you and Ron Warwick could pass as brothers.

[happy daze john in oz]

The closed bridge on cruise ships, and others, now looks more like the NASA launching station than the ones we knew.