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A spardeck (English: spar deck ) is a ship deck on a ship.

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

Spardecks appeared at the end of the 18th century, when warships began to close the space above the Kuhl almost completely, thus creating a continuous deck between the forecastle and the bulwark . This deck was lighter than the rest of the deck and had its name from the stored there spare spars (English Spar ). The dinghies were also located here.
On iron ships, they were initially built on cargo ships with passenger facilities to connect existing deck structures in order to create an additional (often temporary) covered deck area for passengers. From the spar deck later the permanently built of iron or steel, but also excluded from the survey developed protective cover . For both economy and protection decks, classification societies have issued their own regulations regarding the materials to be selected and their strengths. Ships with Spardeck (s) were classified accordingly as Spardecker .

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).