How high is the railing on ships?

[Robse]

Hi all.

I'm about to begin construction of a large vessel, and have collected alot of pictures. The owner (Maersk, Denmark) is very secret about details, so I got an idea: Since the railing is visible on allmost every picture, I can use that as a meassuering reference, if (and here we go) I know how high it is.

I'm building the Emma Mærsk, but surely there's some international standard for railings, or....?

(Used to build submarines, there we don't have that kind of problems...)

Yours sincerely,
Robert Holsting
www.robse.dk

[Kmot]

Well, if I were attempting the same scaling reference I would look through the photos and find some with men standing at the rail. Figuring the standard height for a man, you could extrapolate the railing height by comparing the railing to the man. If no other information is available, that is.

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2007/SimasCeckauskas.shtml

[Jerome Morris]

How about the life boats length, She must have boats that are in the 35'range.
Maybe the water tight doors, there fairly standard as well.
I would think the railings are 42" high, high enough to lean on but a struggle to jump over.

[Ghost 2501]

they may also be plate type rather than post and rail

[MartinVK]

Danish flag state rules (the rules Emma is build to) require railings to be at least 1 meter high. The distance from the deck to the lowest rod in the railing is required to be no more that 230 mm. The mutual distance between the remaining rods in the railing may not exceed 380 mm. The distance between the vertical supports may not exceed 1,5 meter.

Brgds

Martin

[Robse]

Hi all :-)

Thanks a lot for the answers. :-) It got me on track.

Yours sincerely, Robert

[Hoghappy]

About what Jerome said on USN ships...42" to the top rail.

Captain Slick