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Location: Playa de la Isla , off the coast of Mazarron, Sapin: Coordinates: 1]: Type: Site of a sunken ship: History; Founded: 7th century BC: Abandoned: 7th century BC: Periods: Iron Age: Cultures: Phoenician, Iberian: Site notes; Discovered: 1988 (Mazarrón I) 1994 (Mazarrón II): Condition: Conserved at the Museum of Underwater Archaeology in Cartagena: Ownership: Spain: The Phoenician ...
Aft of the stair, a passageway ran across the vessel, aft of which is the stack casing and a well that opened down into the engine room, where the main engine could be seen by passengers on the main deck. Food service counters were placed at the aft end of the main deck, surrounded by open spaces, and a pair of stairs leading to decks above.
With preservation unfeasible, the ship was sold to Berge Sag & Trelast Forretning (Brødrene Berge Ølensvåg) in April 1964. They converted her at their shipyard in Ølensvåg into a freighter by removing most of her top deck to leave only the aft end of the boat deck. On top of this a used wheelhouse was mounted.
A&P Group Ltd is the largest ship repair and conversion company in the UK, with three shipyards located in Hebburn, Middlesbrough and Falmouth.The company undertakes a wide variety of maintenance and repair work on commercial and military ships with projects ranging from a two-day alongside repair period through to multimillion UK pound conversion projects lasting for a year or more.
Bradley declared that the new ship was "the last word in freighter construction." [5] The United States Coast Guard (USCG) described Carl D. Bradley ' s design and construction as: ... [a] typical arrangement for self-unloading type vessels with a forepeak and large cargo area, and having propulsion machinery aft.
Amidships: near the middle part of a ship. [1] Aport: toward the port side of a ship (opposite of "astarboard"). [6] Ashore: on or towards the shore or land. [7] Astarboard: toward the starboard side of a ship (opposite of "aport"). [8] Astern (adjective): toward the rear of a ship (opposite of "forward"). [9] Athwartships: toward the sides of ...
Vertical transom and stern of a modern cargo ship. In some boats and ships, a transom is the aft transverse surface of the hull that forms the stern of a vessel. Historically, they are a development from the canoe stern (or "double-ender") wherein which both bow and stern are pointed. Transoms add both strength and width to the stern.
The throat halyard hoists the throat of the sail (the end closer to the mast) at the forward end of the gaff and bears the main weight of the sail and the tension of the luff. [5] The peak halyard lifts the aft end of the gaff and bears the leech tension. Small craft attach the peak halyard to the gaff with a wire span with eyes at both ends ...