Turret deck ship
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A turret deck ship is a type of merchant ship with an unusual hull, designed and built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The hulls of turret deck vessels were rounded and stepped inward above
Turret Chief running light; stepped hull form and raised midline "turret" are shown.
Cross-section of a turret deck ship
Assembling frames of Grängesberg in Pallion in 1903
The turret deck ship Orange Branch in Townsville, Queensland about 1901. This view, almost bow-on, shows her hull's distinctive profile.
USS Beukelsdijk
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USS Beukelsdijk was a Dutch-owned turret deck ship that was built in England in 1903 as Grängesberg. She was renamed Beukelsdijk in 1916 when she changed owners. In 1918 she was requisitioned as USS B
Turret deck ship
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The ship as Grängesberg, with her smokestack in Wm. H. Müller & Co colors, between 1903 and 1916
The ship as Beukelsdijk sometime between January 1916 and March 1918, with her smokestack in Holland America Line colors, and with Dutch neutrality markings on her side
The ship as Grängesberg, between 1903 and 1916, possibly in Rotterdam
MS Volendam, Fremantle, 2012