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Extended Definition: Lighter Aboard Ship

Lighter aboard ship : Barrage or other shallow water

craft carried onboard a ship for transporting cargo from
ship to shore and the other way around.
 MV Rhine Forest in the Port of Rotterdam
The lighter aboard ship (LASH) system refers to the practice of loading barges
(lighters) aboard a larger vessel for transport.
Development
The palette of the sea ship types was extended in September, 1969 by an other type.
With the commissioning of the Acadia Forrest the transport of ships in the ship to the
connection through seas of separate inland waterways took his beginning. A big
carrier ship takes as a lighter or barges (ships without own impulse) called swimming
normed cargo containers on. In the port of destination the carrier ship separates from
these barges again. They become moved there in the harbour, on canals and rivers as
vehicles of the inland shipping in a push line. The carrier ships are called LASH-
Carrier, Barge-carrier, Kangaroo ships or Lighter Transport Ships.
Economic meaning
Regardless of the respective harbour situations should transport every Barge-carrier 5-
spot more goods than one piece good transporter conventional more commonly at that
time. In it the special interest also lay with this ship type in the beginning of the 1970s
and to him so optimistically to intended future prospects. The seaside piece good
transport already did not correspond in the 1950s any more to the claims of many sea
transport customers. A rationalisation of the piece good envelope at that time was to
be reached only about a standardization in her dimensions, forms and in her external
state often to very different load parts. Worldwide the standardised ISO container
asserted itself in the 1960s only slowly. The big container terminals with his extensive
conveyor-technical arrangements and the gigantic resting places were still in planning
or in the development. Under these conditions offered the LASH-Carrier system with
his lighters which are also to be characterised as swimming containers, as an
alternative and supplement to the developing container traffic. At that time transport
experts thought of a future-laden and rational transport technology. With the lighters
there was no pressure of time in the unloading and loading. Insufficient equipment of
the harbours and missing quay moorings had no influence on the company of the
carrier ship. While the lighters were unloaded and loaded the carrier ship with other
lighters already was on the move again. It had become possible with the fact that
themselves these ships spent more than 80% of her annual application time at sea.
Customary ships often lay half of her annual application in the harbour.
History
The LASH system was developed by the American shipbuilding engineer Jerome
Goldman in the 1960s. The worldwide first LASH-Carrier was the Acadia Forest
(1969). This ship type could take up 75 standardised lighters with about 376 metric
tons of loading capacity. On the 15th December touched for the last time the Rhine
Forest, ex Bilderdijk of Holland-Amerika Line the Port of Rotterdam. It is a sister's
ship of MV München. The LASH lighter with the registration p. CG 6013 was handed
over to the museum De Binnenvaart' in Dordrecht and now is a component of this
inland ship journey museum. Because of the bad extent of utilisation the regular
traffic was put between New Orleans and Rotterdam.

Technology LASH-System
An important technical problem by the realisation of the new transport system was the
envelope of the lighters. A differentiation sign of the different projects and also built
vehicles was the way as the lighters from or aboard were brought. The LASH-System
found the biggest range of application. On this occasion, the lighters individually
from the water were heaved in the rear of the carrier ship by a very big main entrance
crane. This main entrance crane could move about the whole ship length and stow
away thus the taken up lighters several times about one another in the ship body and
in deck. The cranes had a load-carrying capacity of more than 500 Mp. Turning a
lighter lasted on average 15 min LASH ships in Europe, Japan and the USA were
built almost uniform para metres had.
Technical data
LA
Typ of Carrier SH LASH2
1
26
Length about everything m 250
2
32,
Beam m 30,50
50
11,
Draught m 10,70
30
to 43
Tonnage nn 00 29600
s 0
kn
Speed ot 19 22
s
Power hp 26 32000
00
 0

Typ of lighter
Length 18,70 m
Beam 9,50 m
Headway 4,00 m
Weight total 80,00 tonns
Capacity 380,00 tonns
Draught 2,60 m

Sea bee-System
The first ship of a series of three Sea bee-ships was the MV Doctor Lykes. A system
with which in the rear of the carrier ship a lift is arranged is called Sea bee. These lift
is also called Syncrolift. This has a lifting force of more than 2000 Mp. The Syncrolift
is lowered under the water surface. On this underwater platform two to 1,000 metric
tons lighters are swum and raised by this in the suitable deck height. On special rails
transport carriage the lighters are rolled in lengthwise of the ship to her traffic jam
places. On three decks of the MV Doctor Lykes 38 lighters could be stopped. Of it 12
on the lower decks and 14 in upper deck. The double function of the ship is
noteworthy. The side tanks and the unusually big double ground of the vehicle
showed a tank capacity of nearly 36000 m³ volume. The ship could be used also as a
product tanker. The lighters used in the Sea bee-System are considerably bigger than
the LASH-Lighter.
BACAT-System
A Danish project with the name BACAT (Barge-Catamaran) was introduced to
BACAT system in the end of 1973. Was planned of the Transport of several hundred
thousand metric tons of load between Northern Europe and Great Britain. For the
application a system similar to the Sea bee should come. However, the lighters were
smaller and had only one load-carrying capacity of maximum 140 t.
Problems and risks
With the application of Barge-Carriers originated problems which were unknown to
the sea ship journey shipping companies up to now. Aboard the carrier ship the lighter
is nothing else than one big load container. In the seaport and on the inland waterways
he becomes a vessel. Requirements for equipment regulations like anchor, winches,
coupling facilities, signal lamps arise from it. For put together ship unities had to be
provided so-called head barges. These regulations can be quite different in the
different harbours in Europe, North America and Asia. Elaborately the transport
system developed with a service of waterways which freeze over in winter and it
came to a setting of the inland ship operation. This required a high capital
expenditure. This expenditure, linked with the risks for an economic operation of the
carrier ships and her lighters, required conscientious traffic-economic investigations
which were much costlier than for customary freighters or for the container ships
conquering the market and her transport system. Barge carrier and lighter show a
technological interesting sea transport system. They are economic only if many
specific traffic-economic conditions are fulfilled.
Web links
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LASH (German)
• http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/lash.htm

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Lighter
Aboard Ship". Image Credit.

Synonym: LIGHTER ABOARD SHIP

Position Synonym (sorted by strength)
Expression barge carrier.
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Translations: LIGHTER ABOARD SHIP

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Central Danish LASH-skib (barge carrier, lash carrier, lash ship, lash vessel,
lighter aboard ship), lægterkænguruskib (barge carrier, lash
carrier, lash ship, lash vessel, lighter aboard ship), lægtebærende
skib (barge carrier, lash carrier, lash ship, lash vessel, lighter
aboard ship). Additional references: Central Danish, Denmark,
Germany, lighter aboard ship. (volunteer & more translations)
Danish LASH-skib (barge carrier, lash carrier, lash ship, lash vessel,
lighter aboard ship), lægterkænguruskib (barge carrier, lash
carrier, lash ship, lash vessel, lighter aboard ship), lægtebærende
skib (barge carrier, lash carrier, lash ship, lash vessel, lighter
aboard ship). Additional references: Danish, Denmark, Germany,
lighter aboard ship. (volunteer & more translations)
Dansk LASH-skib (barge carrier, lash carrier, lash ship, lash vessel,
lighter aboard ship), lægterkænguruskib (barge carrier, lash
carrier, lash ship, lash vessel, lighter aboard ship), lægtebærende
skib (barge carrier, lash carrier, lash ship, lash vessel, lighter
aboard ship). Additional references: Dansk, Denmark, Germany,
lighter aboard ship. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch Umschlag mit Leichtern (lighter aboard ship). Additional
references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, lighter aboard ship.
 (volunteer & more translations)
Dutch barge carrier (lash carrier, lash ship, lash vessel, lighter aboard
ship, lighter carrier), lichterschip (barge carrier, lash carrier, lash
ship, lash vessel, lighter aboard ship), lichtersdragend vaartuig
(barge carrier, lash carrier, lash ship, lash vessel, lighter aboard
ship), kangoeroeschip (barge carrier, lash carrier, lash ship, lash
vessel, lighter aboard ship), transportschip (transport, trooper-
ship, barge carrier, freighter, lash carrier). Additional references:
Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, lighter aboard ship. (volunteer & more
translations)
German Umschlag mit Leichtern (lighter aboard ship). Additional
references: German, Germany, Austria, lighter aboard ship.
(volunteer & more translations)
Greek πλοίο για φορτηγίδες (barge carrier, lash carrier, lash ship, lash
vessel, lighter aboard ship), πλοίο μεταφοράς φορτηγίδων (barge
carrier, lash carrier, lash ship, lash vessel, lighter aboard ship),
πλοίο φορτηγίδων (barge carrier, lash carrier, lash ship, lash
vessel, lighter aboard ship), φορτηγιδοφόρο πλοίο (barge carrier,
lash carrier, lash ship, lash vessel, lighter aboard ship), πλοίο για
φορτηγίδες τύπου LASH (barge carrier, lash carrier, lash ship,
lash vessel, lighter aboard ship). Additional references: Greek,
Greece, Albania, lighter aboard ship. (volunteer & more
translations)
Greek ploio ya fortiydhes (barge carrier, lash carrier, lash ship, lash
(transliteration) vessel, lighter aboard ship), ploio metaforas fortiydhon (barge
carrier, lash carrier, lash ship, lash vessel, lighter aboard ship),
ploio fortiydhon (barge carrier, lash carrier, lash ship, lash vessel,
lighter aboard ship), fortiydhoforo ploio (barge carrier, lash
carrier, lash ship, lash vessel, lighter aboard ship), ploio ya
fortiydhes tupoi lash (barge carrier, lash carrier, lash ship, lash
vessel, lighter aboard ship). Additional references: Greek, Greece,
Albania, lighter aboard ship. (volunteer & more translations)
High German Umschlag mit Leichtern (lighter aboard ship). Additional
references: High German, Germany, Austria, lighter aboard ship.
(volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch Umschlag mit Leichtern (lighter aboard ship). Additional
references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, lighter aboard ship.
(volunteer & more translations)
Sjaelland LASH-skib (barge carrier, lash carrier, lash ship, lash vessel,
lighter aboard ship), lægterkænguruskib (barge carrier, lash
carrier, lash ship, lash vessel, lighter aboard ship), lægtebærende
skib (barge carrier, lash carrier, lash ship, lash vessel, lighter
aboard ship). Additional references: Sjaelland, Denmark, Germany,
lighter aboard ship. (volunteer & more translations)
 Spanish barco portabarcaza (barge carrier, lash carrier, lash ship, lash
vessel, lighter aboard ship). Additional references: Spanish, Spain,
Mexico, lighter aboard ship. (volunteer & more translations)
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