Ferry van Eeuwen
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ms Trident Rotterdam The building of a ship starts with making a general drawing according to the owners' wishes. After many discussions the design is finalised and detailed drawing of every part of the ship are maid. These drawings are necessary for the actual shipyard builders to construct the vessel exactly as specified. An interesting and difficult process which requires a lot of coordination during the building phase. Also in the final drawing state we received two copies of the General Plan and the lay outs of the radio room and wheelhouse. The latter for planning the installation of the radar indicators, echo sounding equipment and others if ordered with us. In the New Building Department of Radio Holland Rotterdam, in which I worked, the draughtsman and I added in the General Plan the radio receiving and transmitting aerials, the radar antenna in the mast on top of the wheelhouse and all other aerials which were part of our supplied equipment. We also indicated the location of the echo sounder's transducer in the bottom of the ship. We also sent all required detailed cable plans to the company who was appointed to carry out the cabling work. The shipyard translated our drawings into shipyard drawings with which the shipyard builders could work and sent it back to us for approval. This was tricky for if anything was found to be wrong later on the yard would claim the extra work to us. A real cliff hanger, as such costs could run up very high.
This is the ms Trident Rotterdam, call sign PJPY, which was delivered in 1971 to the owners the Koninklijke Nederlandse Scheepvaart Maatschappij (KNSM). It is the sister ship of the ms Trident Amsterdam. Note the for the radar scanner very obstructive Stülcke mast on the fore ship. With help of this construction the ship is able to load and unload heavy cargo by itself. Especially handy when you touch small ports without big crane facilities. The ms Trident Rotterdam was built in 1971 by the Dutch shipyard P. Smit Jr. Machinefabriek & Shipyard, Rotterdam, Netherlands, as new build
665. The keel was laid 30 May, 1969. The launching took place on 8 December, 1970 and the delivery to the Owners Koninklijke Nederlandse Scheepvaart Maatschappij
took place on 20 April, 1971. Another black and white picture of the ms Trident Rotterdam. However, the quality leaves to be desired. |