RUBBER-MOUNTED SUPERSTRUCTURE REDUCES NOISE IN NEW ESSO PRODUCTS CARRIER

A 2,190 tonne d.w. ESSO products carrier, recently delivered by Cochrane Shipbuilders Ltd. of Yorkshire, England, is believed to be the first British-owned ship to incorporate a noise reduction system (developed, manufactured and patented by Grunsweig and Hartmann of Hamburg) which involves mounting the entire deckhouse structure on flexible rubber mountings. The mountings are designed to prevent noise from the machinery being transmitted into the accommodation spaces, and to achieve this as effectively as possible there are no rigid links between the main hull and the deckhouse. The mountings themselves consist of rubber strips sandwiched between two halves of a channel-section arrangement fixed longitudinally along the ship. Rubber mountings are positioned at either end of the deckhouse to prevent fore and aft movement of the deckhouse by acting as buffers in the event of a collision.

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• Corporate Authors:

  IPC Industrial Press Limited

  Quadrant House, The Quadrant
  Sutton, Surrey,   England 
• Publication Date: 1980-12

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 23-25
• Serial:
  • Motor Ship
  • Volume: 61
  • Issue Number: 725
  • Publisher: Blohm + Goss GMBH
  • Serial URL: http://www.hhc.co/uk/motorship

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Deckhouses; Design; Machinery; Noise; Noise control; Superstructures; Tankers
• Identifier Terms: Esso Plymouth (Ship)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Noise reduction
• Old TRIS Terms: Deckhouse structures; General arrangement plans; Machinery noise; Product carrier design; Ship descriptions (Product tankers); Superstructure design
• Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00325793
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 12 1981 12:00AM