Comments on: Kokura + Three http://tugster.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/kokura-three/ scenes from the sixth boro and gallivants beyond Tue, 21 May 2013 15:02:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Buck http://tugster.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/kokura-three/#comment-9685 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:52:16 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=15396#comment-9685 Well the Keel To Mast Height of Maersk Kokura was quite the trivia question. I couldn’t easily find it, so I went for the next best thing; scouring the net for information on her sister ships. I had some luck with Regina Maersk (now Maersk Kure) and found an Army Corps of Engineering paper on the air draft of the Bayonne Bridge that notes her height: 198 feet, keel to mast. With a 48 foot draft, that maker her waterline to mast height 150 feet. The same paper calls the air draft 151 feet at high tide. Whew!

http://www.nan.usace.army.mil/harbor/pdf/BaynBrAirDraftAnls.pdf

Kokura had a different name when she was launched. Then, she was the Katrine. For completeness, the class is made of these ships (named as launched):
Regina Maersk (1995)
Knud Maersk (1996)
Kate Maersk (1996)
Karen Maersk (1996)
Katrine Maersk (1997)
Kirsten Maersk (1997)

]]> By: John van der Doe http://tugster.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/kokura-three/#comment-9678 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:32:26 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=15396#comment-9678 Better safe than sorry, with a containership this size.

I’m sure the coastguard wants 3 tugs to go up the river

Kind Regards,

Jan.

]]> By: Lemming http://tugster.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/kokura-three/#comment-9677 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:19:18 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=15396#comment-9677 Page 4 of this has a good drawing of the air draft under the bridge

http://www.panynj.gov/about/pdf/Bayonne-Bridge-Air-Draft-Analysis.pdf

]]> By: tugster http://tugster.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/kokura-three/#comment-9676 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:21:17 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=15396#comment-9676 good eye, les. i had missed that.

]]> By: Les Sonnenmark http://tugster.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/kokura-three/#comment-9675 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:38:51 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=15396#comment-9675 One hopes the pilot and the master had a good handle on the clearance below the bridge. Note that KOKURA’s mast is folded down. I was aboard a similar size ship entering Charleston. The pilot didn’t think it was necessary to fold the mast, and we just clipped the bridge, only knocking off the topmost light on our mast; could’ve been a lot worse.

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