Repair of turbine oil tanker following fire and explosion damage, which involved cutting out and removal of mid-section of vessel between cargo tanks and replacement by new section, repair of forward and after ends and joining up of all 3 sections in drydock; while method is not new, interest lies in size of ship and in advantages gained when 2 large shipbuilding and repair organizations pool resources; tanker is of 36,000-ton dw class; length oa before repairs was 690 ft and after 730 ft, volume of cargo tanks was increased from 1,567,500 to 1,740,000 cu ft.
Damage repairs of esso portsmouth
Roy Instn Naval Architects -- Quarterly Trans
1963
15 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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