Topsides

The seven-year-old company said it had secured deals worth £2 milllion for topsides asset integrity work with new and existing clients in the offshore oil and gas industry.

An Allseas spokesman told Upstream: "The topsides lift system capacity will be increased to 60,000 tonnes.

Kvaerner said the utilities and living quarters topsides for the Equinor-led Johan Sverdrup oilfield development off Norway is nearing completion at its Stord facility and on track for delivery early next year.

From the outside the rope ran through the blade, through the round block and topsides and was fastened inside the hull.

Heeling When a ship or boat leans over to one side, from the action of waves or from the centrifugal force of a turn or under wind pressure or from amount of exposed topsides, it is said to 'heel'.

Higher topsides were supported with knees with the long axis fastened to the top of the crossbeams.

It also had very rounded underwater sections but had more pronounced flair in the topsides, giving it more stability as well as keeping more water out of the boat at speed or in waves.

Its cross sectional shape was flatter on the bottom with less flair to the topsides.

Oceangoing longships had higher topsides about a convert high to keep out water.

Riverboats are generally of shallow draft, being broad of beam and rather square in plan, with a low freeboard and high topsides.

The ship was similar in hull section to the Nydam ship with flared topsides.