Having had a tour of the ship, I could now describe it in general terms.
The photo below is a sister ship of the Atlantic Sky, which means that the Atlantic Sky looks almost identical to it.
The Atlantic Sky is a Ro-Ro/Container Carrier. The "Ro-Ro" stands for "Roll on-Roll off," which means that it carries vehicles that drive on and off (via a ramp). The "Container" part means that it carries container boxes.
In the back of the ship is a giant ramp that lowers and extends to the starboard side. When it is in the raised position, it looks like this...
When it's lowered, that is where the vehicles drive on and off the ship.
The image below is a cutaway of a typical ship of this class. It is slightly different from the Atlantic Sky, but not by much. So I can use it to guide you through the Atlantic Sky...
For starters, in the image below you can see the living quarter in the red rectangle at the top and in the center of the ship. It is two decks high; the lower deck is the "A" deck, and the upper deck is the "B" deck. The ship's bridge is at the very front of the "B" deck, and the mess hall is at the very front of the "A" deck. Ellen's and my cabin was at the very back on the "B" deck, on the port side.
So...how do passengers get onboard and off the ship?
In the image below, you can see the ramp on the far left is lowered. At the top of the ramp is a red rectangle labeled "QD" (for "Quarterdeck," a Navy term). This is where an oncoming passenger checks in and gets a visitor badge. I will note that this is the 3rd deck (meaning there are two decks below it).
From the QD the passenger walks forward a couple of hundred feet (blue line), and then takes an elevator (red line) up to the 5th deck. On the 5th deck the passenger has to walk a bit forward (blue line), and get in another elevator. This elevator (red line) takes the passenger up to the "A" deck.
The image below depicts where the vehicles are stowed. The vehicles occupy all the decks in the middle of the ship (shown by red rectangles). They enter and exit via the ramp, and there are ramps inside the ship they take either up or down, like a big urban parking garage.
The other big thing, of course, is the containers. The red rectangles in the image below show how and where they are stowed.
Those are the obvious things.
In the image below you can see where the engine room and related engineering spaces are (dotted red rectangle). Those spaces are blocked off by very solid bulkheads behind the visible vehicles. To get there for our ship's tour we had to take the elevators from the A/B decks down into the bowels of the ship and then start walking.
The photo below is a sister ship of the Atlantic Sky, which means that the Atlantic Sky looks almost identical to it.
The Atlantic Sky is a Ro-Ro/Container Carrier. The "Ro-Ro" stands for "Roll on-Roll off," which means that it carries vehicles that drive on and off (via a ramp). The "Container" part means that it carries container boxes.
In the back of the ship is a giant ramp that lowers and extends to the starboard side. When it is in the raised position, it looks like this...
When it's lowered, that is where the vehicles drive on and off the ship.
Ramp lowered for vehicle loading and unloading
The image below is a cutaway of a typical ship of this class. It is slightly different from the Atlantic Sky, but not by much. So I can use it to guide you through the Atlantic Sky...
(Click to enlarge)
For starters, in the image below you can see the living quarter in the red rectangle at the top and in the center of the ship. It is two decks high; the lower deck is the "A" deck, and the upper deck is the "B" deck. The ship's bridge is at the very front of the "B" deck, and the mess hall is at the very front of the "A" deck. Ellen's and my cabin was at the very back on the "B" deck, on the port side.
In the image below, you can see the ramp on the far left is lowered. At the top of the ramp is a red rectangle labeled "QD" (for "Quarterdeck," a Navy term). This is where an oncoming passenger checks in and gets a visitor badge. I will note that this is the 3rd deck (meaning there are two decks below it).
From the QD the passenger walks forward a couple of hundred feet (blue line), and then takes an elevator (red line) up to the 5th deck. On the 5th deck the passenger has to walk a bit forward (blue line), and get in another elevator. This elevator (red line) takes the passenger up to the "A" deck.
The image below depicts where the vehicles are stowed. The vehicles occupy all the decks in the middle of the ship (shown by red rectangles). They enter and exit via the ramp, and there are ramps inside the ship they take either up or down, like a big urban parking garage.
In the image below you can see where the engine room and related engineering spaces are (dotted red rectangle). Those spaces are blocked off by very solid bulkheads behind the visible vehicles. To get there for our ship's tour we had to take the elevators from the A/B decks down into the bowels of the ship and then start walking.
A couple of other places I mentioned we went during our tour were the bow and stern mooring stations. These are where giant hawsers are stowed and used to secure the ship to a pier when it's in port. Here's what an old WWII hawser looked like:
And in the image below you can see where the bow and stern mooring stations were (small red rectangles).
And that pretty much covers it. Now you should have some idea of what the layout of the Atlantic Sky was all about.
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