THE RECONSTRUCTION OF SS MATSONIA: TRAILERSHIP TO A COMBINATION CONTAINER AND RO/RO SHIP

Originally designed as a pure trailership, MATSONIA was reconstructed as a combination container-ro/ro vessel to suit the West Coast-Hawaii trade. This paper traces the design, economic analysis, reconstruction, reactivation and early operation of the ship and discusses its many unique features that were developed during the design process. The paper emphasizes the comparison of the design and reconstruction process for MATSONIA with that of the reconstructed sister ship LURLINE, the method of analysis to compare two viable methods of expanding MATSON's fleet capacity, the major events that occurred during the reconstruction process, the improvements made to the machinery to improve cycle efficiency, the procedures necessary to implement the work to reactivate existing systems during the reconstruction period, and MATSON's early operational experience with the ship.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Transactions paper
• Authors:
  • Briggs, R F
  • Fisher, P A
  • Clement, C T
• Publication Date: 1988

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 30p., incl. discuss.
• Serial:
  • Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers-Transactions
  • Volume: 96
  • Publisher: Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Construction; Containerships; Contracts; Ship conversion
• Old TRIS Terms: Design process; Matsonia (Vessel)
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Construction; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00658105
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Maritime Technical Information Facility
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 21 1994 12:00AM