MODERN FERRIES PROVIDE A TESTING GROUND FOR INNOVATION

This article considers some methods of contributing to the safety of modern passenger/vehicle ferries and their passengers and crews. The through-deck arrangement of these vessels leads to stability problems for the designer. These are discussed, and the rectification that was needed in the train/vehicle/passenger ferry Trelleborg, and the Intering anti-heeling system in this ship, are Briefly described <see Abs. Nos. 58285 & 58322, Nov. 1982>. Fire risk is greater in passenger/vehicle ferries than in other passenger ships, and here again the through-deck arrangement can cause problems; their solution in the light of SOLAS '74, is briefly discussed, and the Danish ferry Kronprinsessan Victoria <see Abs. No. 56776, Jan. 1982> is cited as a good example of the fire protection found in modern ships of this type. Navigation expertise and equipment, and bridge layout, are particularly important in these ferries, and the up-to-date arrange- ments in Stena Danica <see Abs. No. 59732, June 1983>, are briefly described. This ship's lifesaving equipment, also briefly described, includes 14 liferaft "cassettes" of teh type developed by the Davit Company BV <of Holland>; in this system, up to five 25-person life- rafts are stacked in a cassette or frame and can, one by one, be inflated, boarded and lowered in to the water by a LAR crane. The RFD company's Marine Evacuation System <see following Abs.> is mentioned as a radical departure from normal ship-evacuation methods.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Safety at Sea, 1983, p. 13 <Apr.> (3 pp., 1 diag., 7 phot.)
• Publication Date: 1983

Language

• English

Subject/Index Terms

• Identifier Terms: Trelleborg
• Old TRIS Terms: Kronprinsessan victoria
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00685575
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: British Maritime Technology
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 14 1995 12:00AM