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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.
The ship was built in 1924 by AG Weser, Bremen. [2] The ship was a tweendecker (two cargo decks) 240 feet 8 inches (73.36 m) long, with a beam of 38 feet 7 inches (11.76 m) a depth of 15 feet 2 inches (4.62 m). She had a GRT of 1,403 and a NRT of 635.
The ships were classed as multipurpose tweendeckers and as dry cargo freighters. All were powered by steam-turbines, with the exception of the gas-turbine-powered SS Parizhskaya Communa. They had two decks in the tweendecker style, and their superstructure in three blocks. Their general purpose was the carriage of general and grain cargoes.
The ship was launched on 18 Dezember 1926 at Ostseewerft AG, Stettin, completed in March 1927 and put into service on 21 March 1927. [1] [2] [3] The ship was 266 feet 9 inches (81.31 m) long, with a beam of 41 feet 1 inch (12.52 m) a depth of 18 feet 6 inches (5.64 m). She had a GRT of 1,883. and a NRT of 1,084. [4]
Weyerhaeuser started Weyerhaeuser Timber Company with a ship he acquired in 1892. The log towing ship was a 140-foot sternwheeler built for the partnership, Weyerhaeuser and Denkman Company. In 1923 Weyerhaeuser added to ocean lumber cargo ship the SS Pomona and the SS Hanley. The two ships took lumber to the East Coast.
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.