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Courtesy Rik van Hemmen require a lot of air, so the forward location was so ar- Similar to the house front wind tunnel tests, those ranged that the front of the house lined up with the for- tests showed the air? ow, as designed, would not be af- ward ER bulkhead and air entered from the forward fected by the accommodation bump out past the for- house bulkhead, providing better ? ow to the forced draft ward section of the house and the balconies somewhat fans. Attempting to get air into the boilers from the side screwed that up for us.

of the house at almost 40 mph would have required huge We still did 34.2 knots in one fully loaded run.

scoops which would have added drag we hardly needed.

Wind tunnel tests showed that with full containers on Myth busted! And what is most telling is that, once again, deck the air ? ow went over the top of the house, so a ? at the truth is much more complicated than the myth. Thank forward house front did not affect drag. you, John; for designing these great ships, and for ? nally al-

With all the equipment needed for the forced draft lowing me to sleep more peacefully. and other associated boiler auxiliaries in the forward In the spirit of this column, I suppose I should also note house set in there, we found we could narrow the house that the Stones neither wrote nor ? rst recorded “Time is on my enough to get lifeboat stowage on either side of that side”. The song was written by Jerry Ragovoy, who wrote house structure. the title, melody and chorus. Kai Winding, a Danish-Ameri-

This was important as to get all accommodation into can jazz trombonist, and Newark Nightingales Dee Dee War- the length left between the forward ER bulkhead (or last wick, Dionne Warwick and Cissy Houston (Yes, Whitney’s forward cell aft bulkhead) and the forward bulkhead mother) recorded it. The song was released on the Verve Re- of what was desired for the ? rst aft container stow, we cords label in October 1963 and received some radio coverage needed a narrow accommodation block, forward and but did not chart. There ... another myth busted. aft, and thus could go to the full beam of the ship to get the accommodation ? tted. You can see it comes out to the side of the ship.

For each column I write, MREN has agreed to make a

In a USCG decision made during construction that re- small donation to an organization of my choice. For this ally annoyed me, the secondary set of access from the column I choose Holiday Express, holidayexpress.org, a decks of the accommodation (a series of vertical ladders group of musicians and volunteers that has been providing that was approved by the USCG in drawing approval), human kindness since 1993.

was rescinded and balconies had to be ? tted.

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