Stretching a liner...

[Pietro]

May be they are salvaging sections from the Concordia wreck.... look what MSC is doing! They are stretching four of they older ships some 80' ....

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[moparlvr4406]

haunted sections...

 

[BlewByYou88]

Its not uncommon, quite a few Liners, and Freighters have done it. In fact, lot of ships are built in sections now. Watched some Norwegian liners get Decks added on top as well.

 

[Pietro]

....yet there's no argument that will convince me they are not top heavy...

 

[Saverio]

I think this is old but cool to watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWxZUAMpKLA

 

[Henry Boyd]

Pietro,

Its all air up there. Even the biggest container ships that are 200' feet above the waterline, only have a draft of 50 to 55' feet. That little tank container is 8.5' high and using my mouse arrow as a ruler it looks like the below waterline dimension is a about 3 container heights, or a 25' to 30' draft.

Ships are stretched all the time, some of the first generation post panamax containerships were built with 8000 TEU capacity with the intention of being stretched to carry 12,000 TEU at a later date. There has even been some speculation that the loss of the MOL Comfort, a new 8000 TEU containership that broke in half and sank was the result of a poorly design hull compromised by features that would allow future stretching.

Henry

 

[OldSkool]

Ships are built in section and can be stretched as stated here. Couple problems for me, it just seems creepy to use a section from a ship where so many died. I'm not the ghost story type, it just seems creepy. Next is the sea worthiness of a section that sat for so long on salt water. Other than that I'm OK with it.

As for top heavy. Steel on the bottom with heavy engines and machinery, aluminum and cored wood panels on top. They use the same type composite wood as the aircraft industry.