The Quanzhou, Shinan, and Pattaya ships all had V-shaped hulls with keels, and transverse bulkheads were one of the most distinctive elements of this shipbuilding tradition. The isolation ...

The ship is divided by eight watertight transverse bulkheads providing five cargo holds with a maximum carrying capacity of 522 twenty and 40-ft. containers below deck, and 835 twenty and 40-ft.

It is so subdivided by transverse bulkheads that even in the event of a collision and injury to a bulkhead, whereby two com partm ents might fill with water, the ship would still float in perfect ...