Trunk deck ship

The trunk Decker, German often suitcase or trunk deck ship ship was a ship type for the tramper who emerged at the end of the 19th century in Great Britain. The name is derived from the design of the hull from a over the entire load compartment length, but only about half the width of the ship reaching elevated deck box (English trunk deck). The trunk deck this designed for bulk cargo vessels, which acts like a very greatly increased coaming, with a full load of Luke reduces the risk of over -length charge by the resulting reduction in the surface charge. Best-known shipyard for ships of this type was Ropner Shipbuilding in Stockton -on-Tees, Great Britain, but was also known that John Priestman & Company shipyard Castletown Yard in Southwick, Sunderland, which built a very similar type of ship shipbuilding technically also be among the Trunk deckers is.

For inland tankers is defined as the increased deck on which the piping and tank openings are mounted as a trunk deck.