SOME COLLISION AND GROUNDING CONSIDERATIONS FOR REFRIGERATED GAS CARRIERS

While shipping losses of any kind or in any location are of concern to builders, owners, operators, insurers, survey and other authorities in the marine field, the consequences of spillage of liquefied gas cargo local to residential and/or occupational population is of special concern to land based health and safety authorities owing to subsequent rapid formation of unconfined heavy toxic or flammable gas clouds. The latter consideration of the U.K. Health and Safety Executive has stimulated and sponsored some studies by the author into the mechanics of gas carrier hull resistance to collision and grounding incidents of a severity sufficient to cause spillage of the liquid cargo. These studies, which have been carried out over the past few years, are reviewed in this paper and related, as far as possible, to parallel work elsewhere.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Marine Safety. Proceedings of an International Conference to Celebrate the Centenary of the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, University of Glasgow, 7-9 Sept. 1983, Paper no.10 (16 pp., 37 ref., 1 tab., 3 graphs, 2 diag.)
• Authors:
  • Kinkead, A N
• Publication Date: 1983

Language

• English

Subject/Index Terms

• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00686558
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: British Maritime Technology
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 14 1995 12:00AM