Urgently re-incline all ferries not re-inclined within four years
Sheen Inquiry · Sheen Inquiry — Final Report · Issued 24 July 1987
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
Not only should the SPIRIT class vessels be re-inclined, but all existing ferries that have not been re-inclined within the last 4 years should be re-inclined as a matter of urgency to assess their current lightship weights and centres of gravity. Thereafter they should be re-inclined at every special survey. These figures would then be available for use in the production of reliable trimmed envelope curves.
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Response — verbatim from government
●No formal government response recorded
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