Talk:Roll-on/roll-off

message: Pictures of the five ferries built in 1905 to go between lower Manhattan in New York City and Staten Island appear to be ro-ro, and the 1888 Stapleton and Castleton may have been, too. See pictures here, particularly of the Brooklyn arriving at the pier. http://www.siferry.com/pastvessels.html
These are the earliest automobile (or in 1888 horse and wagon) ro-ro I am aware of. John L (talk), July 2017.  —Preceding undated comment added 19:23, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Staten Island Ferries 

message: The biggest is MV FEDORA: Measuring 227.8 meters long with a deck capacity area of 67,300 m2, the m/v FEDORA will become one of the world’s largest car carriers upon its introduction to WWL’s fleet. The vessel’s size and design gives it a carrying capacity of 8,000 cars or a combination of 3,484 cars and 468 buses. Five of its 13 car decks are hoistable and four are strengthened for roll-on roll-off cargo, allowing for maximum cargo-carrying flexibility. Or what is the same a 40 kilometres parking line  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.118.115.32 (talk) 10:06, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: THE BIGGEST BOAT

message: I commented out the reference to large open vehicle deck as none of the three named disaster ships had an open deck, and, based on personal experience around the Uk and Scandinavia, I believe that large ocean-going ferries don't have open vehicle decks.  Open decked ro-ros seem only to exist as smaller vessels used on short sea-going routes.--JBellis 14:14, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: open decks

message: Would the Landing_Ship_Tank of WWII count as an RORO, possibly the first? If not, when were ROROs first made? Identity0 19:39, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: landing ships

message: Surely they existed before the 1950's.   says the first was in 1848 at Burntisland  in Scotland - for railway carriages.--JBellis 21:22, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Ro-Ro 

message: Cougar Ace just had its crew of 23 rescued off the coast of Alaska. Was this another free surface effect issue? --Gbleem 12:30, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently not; reports are now saying the severe list occurred during a ballast readjustment.  Note, too, that it has not sunk or even fully capsized. —Steve Summit (talk) 13:03, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cougar Ace 

message: I've removed the list of accidents in the "Risks" section as it was POV and unmaintainable.
(For now, the content is at List of RORO vessel accidents.)
Presumably someone added this list (with its death counts for each accident) to prove how unsafe a RORO vessel is, but the statistic is meaningless unless it can be compared to accidents for non-RORO ships (and for RORO ships which had accidents due to causes other than the RORO design).  Also, the presence of the list is an open invitation for anyone to add mention of any accident that happened to any RORO ship anywhere, for reasons having nothing to do with the RORO design.  (The sinking of the Queen of the North in 2006, for example, was an ordinary accident in which the ship struck rocks due to a navigational error.  There's evidently also controversy -- or at any rate a minor edit war here -- over the cause of the sinking of the al-Salam Boccaccio 98.)
—Steve Summit (talk) 13:32, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  accident list 

message: is this the correct title? shouldn't the second word of each phrase be lower case? i.e."Roll on/Roll off"? Bonus Onus 07:09, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Title

message: http://img296.imageshack.us/my.php?image=suhulet269bd.jpg
I do not know why everyone ignored it, but the suhulet, that entered service in 1871 in the Ottoman Empire, is the world's first automobile Roll on / Roll off ferry. It served in the Capital city of Istanbul, to connect cars between the two shores of the bosphorus.
--62.244.231.229 (talk) 13:44, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Suhulet

message: Reference 4 to Wallenius is a bad link.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Monado (talk • contribs) 00:37, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference is to dead link 

message: Guidance in WP:MOS#Article titles includes, "Special characters—such as the slash (/), [...] are avoided; ...". Perhaps this article should be renamed. Wtmitchell  (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 02:51, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name 

message: Roll on/Roll off, is not a vessel! It is an operational method of loading and unloading ships, of which roro ferries are a part, and not the only part.  Either this article needs to be retitled "Roll-on/Roll-off Ferry", or needs to be rewritten, so as to describe RORO as a system. Danrok (talk) 20:32, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article seems to be missing the point, or mistitled 

message: I note that this article now prefers the capitalized acronym RORO to ro-ro or ro/ro. 
Having worked in shipping journalism for almost 35 years I feel that RORO is to say the least unusual! Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 20:32, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  RORO?  

message: I am not really sure, if the units RT, RT43 and CEU (Car Equivalent Unit) are exactly the same.
The RT43-unit is based on a 1966 Toyota Corona as there is a motor or car type listed RT43. My information comes from this pages version of 9th Feb 2015 and Toyota Corona. --Helium4 (talk) 11:31, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  CEU = RT = RT43? 

message: It is disappointing to me to read nothing here about the use of RoRo ships on the Baltic Sea. I remember crossing to Klaipeda in 1991 or so, and there was full infrastructure for carrying trucks and cars and even train waggons, though this last was only used for a mail van. There was a break of gauge in play, too. I have a vague memory of being told at the time that the purpose of that infrastructure was mainly to carry, if needed, troops and their equipment quickly from the Soviet Union to Germany. But of course I have no references. Jan olieslagers (talk) 17:37, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  On the Baltic Sea