What is the Merchant Marine?

The Merchant Marine: "Acta non verba."

The UTFP Merchant Marine is a fleet of privately owned, merchant transport ships, which provide space-borne transportation for cargoes moving in interplanetary commerce. The Merchant Marine is a part of the Transportation Department and answers to the Chief of Transportation

The TRITON CLASS is an ore transporter. It is used to transport minerals from a surface refinery to an orbital processing plant. Nicknamed the 'SPFC TRUCK', the TRITON CLASS is warp capapble, elthough it only has a low top cruising speed of about warp 5, depending on how much cargo is being carried.

The Deneva Type Bridge became the standard bridge configuration for many Transport/Cargo Freighters by 2860. This configuration required a little more than a third the crew compliment as the older Excelsior Type Bridge configuration of 19.

The Deneva Type Bridge Configuration had been intergrated into both the Deneva Cargo Transport Vessel and the Sydney Personnel Transport Vessel.

The Deneva Class Freighter is 100.4 meters in length, 52.8 beam and is 18 meters in draught (20.1m when the landing gear is down). Standard armament is a single turret mounted Type-V phaser array, placed on the ventral side of the command section and two Type-IV's on the stern.

Originally commissioned in 2306, the Deneva Class has become a common sight on the colonial trade routes of the Federation and is known as one of the most reliable medium-sized freighter.

Designation Cargo Container Ship (Ship Designations); Ships Built/Remain in service 742 / 688; TACTICAL Weapons 3 Phaser Arrays, 1 Photon Torpedo Launchers (Stock 50); Shield Strength 2.6; Offensive Power 10.4 OTHER STATS; Maximum Speed Warp 9.01 (for 3 hours) Maximum Cruising Speed Warp 7.62 (Upgraded to 9.05, 2364); Mass 864,000 metric tonnes; Length 100.4M Beam 52.8M; Draught 18M; Decks 4

As stated in the photo the Deneva Container can hold 200 cubic meters of cargo, or 200 to 800 metric tons of cargo, depending on the gravitional forces of the planet being supplied. Each container measures 5 x 5 x 8 meters.

The H-Class was conceived to fill the need for a long range container and supply transport. The ship is a very versatile transport. The external storage of containers are held with tractor fields. The internal shuttlebay runs 3/4 of the way through the secondary hull and is used as internal storage for loose goods and supplies and can be used for transporting people with internal refits. The crew quarters and most systems are located into the smaller upper primary hull. The ship's lone defenses are a single phaser strip located at the front of the primary hull and is mainly used for navigation purposes.

Long range container transport; Length: 320m; Crew complement: 15 (plus passengers); Speed: Warp 6.2 (cruise); Warp 8.5 (max.); The ship can haul 30 H-Class Containers, or a max. of 270,000 metric tons of cargo.

Note: This data is based on drawning measurments and oberservation....The H-Class Container outside measurements are 30m x 26m x 15.5m. it is noticable that the containers have a sloped cut-out section on each of the 4 edges. I do not know their purpose, but I believe that these areas contain equipment, heaters, powers units etc. so that the storage units can maintain themselves while in use.

With that being said, the height of each of these sections is 2.5 meters which equals 8.2 ft. Acounting for flooring and overhead bulkheads this would reduce the space to almost exactly a standard room height of 8 feet.

The internal measurements are approximately 30x20x15 meters, and represents a volume of 9,000 cubic meters. If each of the 30 containers were carrying water (9,000 metric tons) the ship would be hauling 270,000 metric tons.

The Hopper Class Heavy Short Range Sublight Shuttle, or Hopper for short, was developed during the first Cardassian War in response to the need for a impulse powered ship-to-ship/ship-to-shore landing craft capable of carrying a large variety of modules that can allow the Hopper to handle assignments from Recon, Communication, Cargo Movement, Work Bee Hauler, to Troop Transport/Scout ship.

HULL DIMENSIONS Length: 15.5 meters Beam: 10.5 meters Draft: 5.65 meters Mass: 30 tonnes Cab with standard Transport Module Craft Class: Hopper Class Shuttlecraft Type / Role: Heavy short range Sublight Shuttle Designed: 2368

The Android male, pictured above is like the Andriod female in every aspect except, physical appearance and voice pattern. These differences were done on purpose to accommodate humanoid passangers and crew. Studies have shown that humaniods are more at ease (comfortable) in a multi sex environment than they are in a unisexual environment. If the humanoid passangers/crew are more at ease then the stresses brought on by the confinement during a longer/deep space mission is lessened and moral is improved.

This Female model is not as advanced as the above represented model 663F/M. They were one of the first models to utalize the speach based deductive reasoning algorithms. Their primary roles aboard the Deneva, H-Class, and Sydney Class Vessels is Hopper and Work Bee operators.

This male model, like the above mentioned female model - 439F, is not as advanced as the above represented model 663F/M.
In addition to the above mentioned tastks, both the 439F/M have secondary functions include shipboard security, maintenance and first aid for the ship and/or humanoid passangers/crew.
Like the 663F/M, the 439F/M are only different is physical appearance and voice patterns.

The Heavy Lifter Droid, or HL-1400 is a mechanical marvel in its own right. Though lacking the ability of speach, these untis have the ability to lift one metric ton of material, yet the dexterity to splice fiber optic wires as thin as human hair. Rarely seen anywhere aboard ship except in engineering and cargo sections due to their unsightly/unfriendly appearance it is periodically required that they assist the 439F/M's in shipboard maintenance. So, complete seperation of this model from passangers/crew is not possible.