"The Ships"
featuring
- Stolt Ships -
- some ships of the Stolt Parcel
Tanker fleet-
Featuring: "Stolt Norness"
Here is a class of ships that
revolutionized the transport of chemicals and refines oil products.
These were the first ships
in the World that was designed from the beginning to be the ultimate chemical
carriers, and as such they became the "mother" of all chemical carriers
that came after.
Although they started to come
out of Belgium's Boelwerft way back in 1970, these ships were still modern
when they were finally scrapped.
What made this class of ships revolutionize the handling of aggressive chemicals and highly refined oil products was the introduction of several new details, in layout and ship construction, - details that was not previously seen in other ships.
Some of the features that made
the four "Stolt Norness" class ships unique, - and differ from previous
ships -, was the introduction of stainless steel tanks.
The tank section was surrounded
by a double bottom and double skin construction, where frames, webs, stringers
and stiffeners that would normally be inside the tank compartments would
now be placed outside.
This arrangement make tank
bottoms and bulkheads very smooth and makes cleaning and inspection much
easier.
To further segregate the tanks,
transverse cofferdams were dividing the tank compartment into 5 separate
sections.
For pumping cargo, each tank
was fitted with a new type of hydraulically driven deep well pump, that
would leave only a few liters cargo left in the tank after discharging.
Instead of fixed deck cranes,
- a traveling crane was introduced, and since it traveled on rails along
the entire length of the tank deck, it could reach almost any place onboard.
In 1970 these ships were "state of the art" and way ahead of their time, - and remained modern throughout their active service life, since they could handle almost any cargo just as well as the latest chemical carriers of our time.
The "Norse" class was immediately
followed in 1971/1972 by a 3 bigger ships, - the "Bole" Class -, which
was quite similar in layout, but with one more cargo section, and the main
engine had one more cylinder compared with the original "Norse" class.
"Stolt Norness" Class
Commissioned: Four ships,
1970 - 1971
Builders: Boelwerft,
Belgium
Deadweight: 17.550 -
18.821 LT.
Length overall: 158,5
M
Breath, max.: 22,13 M
Draft: 31 feet
1979-08-099
"Stolt Norness", - the first
"state of the art" chemical carrier
Photographed in Houston, Sept.
1979
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
1979-08-100
"Stolt Norness"
Photographed in Houston, Sept.
1979
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
1979-09-003
"Stolt Norness"
Photographed in Houston, Sept.
1979
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
1979-09-006
"Stolt Norness"
Photographed in Houston, Sept.
1979
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
1981-07-017
"Stolt Norness" leaving Magellan
Strait in 1981
(Photography © Karsten Petersen)
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Page initiated: Jan.15.2009
Page updated: Dec.19.2009,
- Sep.01.2011