Port Talbot type

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Port Talbot Type (English: Port Talbot Type or Port Talbot class ) is an outdated size specification for ships . It describes the largest ore ships that can just pass through the locks of Port Talbot in Wales to reach the steelworks there. They were up to 130.15 m long, 17.40 m wide and had a load capacity of around 10,000 tons. With the inauguration of the new tidal port with ore handling facility in 1970, the term Port Talbot type quickly fell out of use.

The majority of the ships of the Port Talbot type were in service with the shipping companies Denholm , Buries Markes and Houlder , many of them in long-term charter with the British Iron & Steel Corporation (BISCO), for which numerous ships with precisely these dimensions were built.

literature

  • Laurence Dunn: Ship Recognition: Merchant Ships . 3. Edition. Adlard Coles Limited, London 1961 (pp. 39/40).

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