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Tweendeckers are general cargo ships with two or sometimes three decks. The upper deck is called the main deck or weather deck, and the next lower deck is the tweendeck. Cargo such as bales, bags, or drums can be stacked in the tweendeck space, atop the tweendeck. Beneath the tweendeck is the hold space, used for general cargo.
Kolomna class (Russian: Коломна класс) is a class of sea-going dry cargo steamers, tweendeckers, that were built in VEB Schiffswerft Neptun, Rostock, GDR, between 1952 and 1958, as per Projects 233. [1]
The SS Bratstvo (Russian: Братство) was a multi-purpose tweendecker freighter owned by the Black Sea Shipping Company in the Soviet Union.It was a Leninsky Komsomol-class cargo ship, with steam-turbine engines, and was built in accordance with the specifications of Projects 567 and 567K.
Toyvo Antikaynen (Russian: Тойво Антикайнен) was a merchant ship of Black Sea Shipping Company (Soviet Union), tweendecker type general cargo ship, project B401. This ship is one of the Kommunist-class cargo ships. [2] The ship was named in honor of the Finnish communist leader and the Red Army officer Toivo Antikainen.
Enterprise (lead ship) 25 November 1961 3 February 2017 55 years, 70 days Struck, to be scrapped [63] CV-66 America: Kitty Hawk: 23 January 1965 9 August 1996 31 years, 199 days Sunk as target ship in the Atlantic Ocean in 2005 [64] CV-67 John F. Kennedy: John F. Kennedy (lead ship) 7 September 1968 23 March 2007 38 years, 197 days Sold for ...
Flush decks have been in use since the times of the ancient Egyptians. Greco-Roman Trireme often had a flush deck but may have also had a fore and aft castle deck. Flush decks were also common on medieval and Renaissance galleys but some also featured fore and aft castle decks.
Type N3 ship and Type C1 ship were the designations for small cargo ships built for the United States Maritime Commission before and during World War II. [2] [3] Both were use for close to shore and short cargo runs. [4] [5] [6] The Government of the United Kingdom used Empire ships type Empire F as merchant ships for coastal shipping.
The second US ship to be named for the Currituck Sound, [1] the Currituck (AV-7), was launched 11 September 1943 by Philadelphia Navy Yard; sponsored by Mrs. M. F. Draemel; and commissioned 26 June 1944. [2]