Protective deck

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the deck of a warship, sometimes referred to as a protective deck, see armored deck .

A protective cover (English: shelter deck ) is a ship's deck on a ship.

details

According to the definition of authorities and classification societies , a protective deck is a lightly built, closed deck above the main deck .

The protective deck evolved from the savings deck . This deck, initially made of battens (English: spars ), was often built on cargo ships with passenger facilities as an additional deck to connect existing deck structures in order to create an additional (often temporary) covered deck area for passengers. Later, the protective deck, built permanently from iron or steel, developed from this. It was made open by measurement openings with prescribed dimensions, as were the bulkheads underneath, and thus excluded from the measurement. For both economy and protection decks, classification societies have issued their own regulations regarding the materials to be selected and their strengths. Ships with a protective deck above the survey deck were classified accordingly as protective decks.

literature

• Detje, Peter (ed.): Shipbuilding for boaters . Eckhardt & Messtorff Verlag, Hamburg 1962.
• Claviez, Wolfram (Ed.): Seemännisches Dictionary . 2nd Edition. Verlag Delius, Klasing & Co, Bielefeld 1978, ISBN 3-7688-0166-7 .
• Authors group: Ship Design and Construction . Ed .: D'Arcangelo, Amelio M. 2nd edition. The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, New York 1969 (Library of Congress Card No. 71-83259).