Manx Maid ll
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:03 pm
Manx Maid [2] Steel twin screw steamer, geared turbines
Official Number: 186352 Call Sign: G H X Y
Built & engined: Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd., Birkenhead
Yard No. 1303
Gross Tonnage: 2724 Speed: 21.5 knots
Overall length: 104.83m Breadth: 16.16m
Launched: 23.1.1962 Cost: £1,087.000
Maiden Voyage: 23.5.1962 Final Voyage: 9.9.1984
Disposal: Left Birkenhead under tow for Bristol 10.4.1985. Left
Avonmouth 8.2.1986 under tow of tug Indomitable for
Garston, Merseyside, for breaking up.
Built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead in 1962. Tonnage 2724; length 325'; beam 50'; depth 18'; speed 21 knots; b.h.p. 9,500. Cost £1,087,000. Certified for 1400 passengers and crew of 60.
To the engineer the ship is very similar to the Manxman except for Babcock and Wilcox integral furnace boilers, installed instead of the sectional header type. Her two double-reduction geared turbines develop a brake horsepower of 9,500. This ship has been a great success and is of major importance in the history of the Steam Packet Company for she is the first designed as a car ferry; she can take 90 cars. She is also the Company's first ship to be fitted with stabilisers.
The design principle for vehicle loading is simple. A spiral set of ramps at the stern links with the car deck so that the vehicles can be driven on or off from the appropriate level on departure or arrival. This patented system of ramps facilitates loading and unloading at any state of the tide at any of the Company's ports. Cars have been carried to the island for a number of years, but the tidal range at Douglas is considerable and it previously necessitated taking the vehicles on and off by crane, a slow and irksome process.
The decision to build a new generation of carferrying vessels was taken in 1959 and Manx Maid was launched in January 1962. The design of the side loader with a spiral ramp at the stern is a unique feature of the Steam Packet Company's car ferries. In all, she was the 13th vessel that the Birkenhead yard had built for the Company since 1910. In 1979 she was fitted with a bow thruster mechanism, similar to that fitted to the Ben-my-Chree (V) the previous winter.
Island Lifeline, Connery Chappell. Steam Packet 175, Cowsil and Hendy.
SG224
Official Number: 186352 Call Sign: G H X Y
Built & engined: Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd., Birkenhead
Yard No. 1303
Gross Tonnage: 2724 Speed: 21.5 knots
Overall length: 104.83m Breadth: 16.16m
Launched: 23.1.1962 Cost: £1,087.000
Maiden Voyage: 23.5.1962 Final Voyage: 9.9.1984
Disposal: Left Birkenhead under tow for Bristol 10.4.1985. Left
Avonmouth 8.2.1986 under tow of tug Indomitable for
Garston, Merseyside, for breaking up.
Built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead in 1962. Tonnage 2724; length 325'; beam 50'; depth 18'; speed 21 knots; b.h.p. 9,500. Cost £1,087,000. Certified for 1400 passengers and crew of 60.
To the engineer the ship is very similar to the Manxman except for Babcock and Wilcox integral furnace boilers, installed instead of the sectional header type. Her two double-reduction geared turbines develop a brake horsepower of 9,500. This ship has been a great success and is of major importance in the history of the Steam Packet Company for she is the first designed as a car ferry; she can take 90 cars. She is also the Company's first ship to be fitted with stabilisers.
The design principle for vehicle loading is simple. A spiral set of ramps at the stern links with the car deck so that the vehicles can be driven on or off from the appropriate level on departure or arrival. This patented system of ramps facilitates loading and unloading at any state of the tide at any of the Company's ports. Cars have been carried to the island for a number of years, but the tidal range at Douglas is considerable and it previously necessitated taking the vehicles on and off by crane, a slow and irksome process.
The decision to build a new generation of carferrying vessels was taken in 1959 and Manx Maid was launched in January 1962. The design of the side loader with a spiral ramp at the stern is a unique feature of the Steam Packet Company's car ferries. In all, she was the 13th vessel that the Birkenhead yard had built for the Company since 1910. In 1979 she was fitted with a bow thruster mechanism, similar to that fitted to the Ben-my-Chree (V) the previous winter.
Island Lifeline, Connery Chappell. Steam Packet 175, Cowsil and Hendy.
SG224