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bulk of the accommodation is given to 

 freightage, they have very comfortable 

 accommodation for a limited number of 

 passengers; these are usually carried in a 

 single class. Many of those employed in 

 the frozen meat trade would have been 

 thought huge vessels on the Atlantic only 

 thirty years ago. The cargo ship has also 

 evolved in special types, such as the 

 turret ship, where the plan of the hull is 

 very different from that usually found. 

 This has been done to get an unbroken 

 space of considerable size for the cargo, 

 quite clear of bulkheads and other encum- 

 brances. 



The train-ferry is another rather out of 

 the ordinary type of ship, and their use 

 is being steadily extended. At present only 

 a small fleet works from Britain to Zee- 

 brugge, but it is very possible that their 

 use will be extended in the near future, 

 since the ability to take loaded wagons, so 

 saving transhipment, is proving of con- 

 siderable utility. 



