Hold (compartment)

A ship's hold or cargo hold is a space for carrying cargo.

View of the hold of a container ship

Description

Cargo in holds may be either packaged in crates, bales, etc., or unpackaged (bulk cargo). Access to holds is by a large hatch at the top. Ships have had holds for centuries; an alternative way to carry cargo is in standardized shipping containers, which may be loaded into appropriate holds or carried on deck.[1][2]

Holds in older ships were below the orlop deck, the lower part of the interior of a ship's hull, especially when considered as storage space, as for cargo. In later merchant vessels it extended up through the decks to the underside of the weather deck.

Some ships have built in cranes and can load and unload their own cargo. Other ships must have dock side cranes or gantry cranes to load and unload.[3]

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See also

Ships with Holds:

References

Notes
  1. The ship cargo hold and the types of bulk cargoes Archived 2017-02-23 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Cargo ship: general structure, equipment and arrangement Archived 2017-01-09 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Cargo hold tour, SS Lane Archived 2016-08-02 at the Wayback Machine

Sources
  • Sawyer, L.A. and W.H. Mitchell. Victory ships and tankers: The history of the ‘Victory’ type cargo ships and of the tankers built in the United States of America during World War II, Cornell Maritime Press, 1974, 0-87033-182-5.
  • United States Maritime Commission:
  • Victory Cargo Ships


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