A ship of about 14,000 containers, drawn part by part from the side, from above and in cross-section. For each part: what it does, an everyday example, and what happened when it failed on a real ship.
366 mLength
51 mBeam
15.5 mDraught
14,000TEU
Side view
The starboard side, bow to the right. Holds, tanks and the engine room are drawn faintly through the hull.
Top down
The deck from above, bow to the right. 1 bay is left empty to show the hatch covers; 1 bay carries 20 ft boxes in pairs.
Cross-section
A slice through the middle, looking forward. 10 tiers in the hold, 9 on deck, with the row and tier numbers used to address every box.
Every part
Numbers match the drawings. Under each name: the views it appears in.
Hull
Cargo
Navigation and crew
Machinery
Deck and mooring
About this drawing
A generic design, not a specific ship, drawn to scale: the side view and top view at 3 pixels to the metre, the cross-section at 7. The layout, with the bridge forward of the middle and the engine aft, is common on ships of this size. Container colours are left neutral.
Sources for the incidents: the Marine Accident Investigation Branch report on the MSC Napoli (2008); the US National Transportation Safety Board findings on the Dali (2025); public reporting and the ship owners' statements on the MOL Comfort, the Ever Given, the ONE Apus and the X-Press Pearl, with the United Nations assessment of the X-Press Pearl spill (2021). Rules: SOLAS chapter V (bridge visibility), the Load Lines Convention, MARPOL Annex VI (sulphur) and the Ballast Water Management Convention.