Roll-on/roll-off
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Roll-on/roll-off ships are cargo ships designed specifically to transport wheeled cargo, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, buses, trailers and railroad cars, which are moved dire
Blount Island RoRo port in Jacksonville, Florida
The Gran Bretagna of Grimaldi Lines in the Mediterranean Sea on 13/04/2024
M/S Tom Sawyer in Trelleborg
MV Bali Sea, a roll-on/roll-off train ferry operated between Coatzacoalcos and Mobile
MS Herald of Free Enterprise
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MS Herald of Free Enterprise was a roll-on/roll-off ferry which capsized moments after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on the night of 6 March 1987, killing 193 passengers and crew.
Roll-on/roll-off
…derisively expanded to "roll on/roll over". An improperly secured loading door can cause a ship to take on water and sink, as happened in 1987 with Herald of Free Enterprise. Water sloshing on the vehicle deck can set up a free surface effect, making the ship unstable and causing it to capsize. Free surface water on the…
Herald of Free Enterprise in Dover's Eastern Docks, 1984
The ship on her side, half-submerged
MS Herald of Free Enterprise towed into the harbour at Vlissingen after salvage, May 1987
Memorial window at St Margaret's Church, St Margaret's at Cliffe, Kent