It was a type of merchant vessel known as luxury liners or speed queens as they were once called.

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When the designers tell us what type of shear loads they expect on areas of a vessel we build it to withstand many times that load.

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Manannan will be the largest vessel of her type in the Irish Sea with a faster cruising speed than other ferries.

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Another vessel of this type is currently under construction at the Galati Shipyard, as is a smaller, 28 m long Fishery Research Vessel (a Damen FRV 2810), also commissioned by the Angolan Ministry.

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