Norman L. McKellar

Shipbuilding under the
U. S. Shipping Board, 1917-1921

Featuring major Shipslists from The Belgian Shiplover, 1959-1963


USS Alloway (EFC Design 1015) on 5 July 1918

USS Alloway (EFC Design 1015) on 5 July 1918

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1. Steel Ships

Steel Ships: Introduction

This introduction to the article on steel ships also applies in part to requisitioned and wooden ships.
 
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Ship Name Index
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Requisitioned Steel Ships, Part I

Ships by builder: Albina Engine & Machine Works to McDougall Duluth.
 
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Requisitioned Steel Ships, Part II

Ships by builder: Merchant Shipbuilding to Willamette Iron & Steel.
 
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Contract Steel Ships, Part I

Ships of EFC Designs 1012 to 1016.
 
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Contract Steel Ships, Part II

Ships of EFC Designs 1017 to 1022.
 
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Contract Steel Ships, Part III

Ships of EFC Designs 1023 to 1032.
 
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Contract Steel Ships, Part IV

Ships of EFC Designs 1037 to 1049.
 
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Contract Steel Ships, Part V

Ships of EFC Designs 1057 to 1095.
 
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Contract Steel Ships, Part VI

Ships of EFC Designs 1097 to 1133. Also one private order and Chinese and Japanese contracts (Designs 1092 and 1118-1127).
 
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Shipscribe Addenda - Steel Ships

EFC Steel ship contracts not in McKellar (all cancelled)

Name Changes of Completed EFC Steel Ships

Names of Cancelled EFC Steel Ships

2. Wooden and Concrete Ships

Wooden Ships, Part I

Wooden ships by builder from Alabama Drydock to Murnan S.B. with McKellar's introduction. For those who miss the organization by EFC design of the steel list, Shipscribe has added a list of the wooden ship contracts organized by EFC design and with their EFC hull numbers.
 
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Wooden Ships, Part II

Wooden ships by builders from McBride and Law to York River S.B. along with two Australian contracts and McKellar's comments on the main wooden ship designs.
 
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Concrete Ships

Extracted from an article covering concrete ships built by all countries during both World Wars. Shipscribe has added an update based on archival data and recent research.
 
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Shipscribe update
 

Shipscribe Addenda - Wooden Ships

Wooden ship contracts arranged by EFC design
(including those not in McKellar, all cancelled)

Name Changes of Completed EFC Wooden and Concrete Ships

Names of Cancelled EFC Wooden and Concrete Ships

3. Tugs and Steel Barges

Tugs and Steel Barges

These were not covered by McKellar and Shipscribe has provided data on them to complete the record of the EFC program.
Ocean-Going Tugs

Harbor Tugs
& Steel Barges
 

4. References


Ship Name Index: A list of the names under which all EFC ships were completed.
Use this to find individual ships in McKellar's lists.

EFC Designs: A list with descriptions of all numbered EFC designs.

Shipbuilders: A list of all firms that built ships for the EFC.

For information on the EFC/USSB shipbuilding program as a whole see Shipscribe's database Shipbuilding Contracts of the U. S. Emergency Fleet Corporation, 1917-1920 in the "References: U. S. Merchant Ships" section of this website. For the construction dates and other data on all completed EFC ships as of early 1920 see the USSB publication Contract and Requisitioned Steamships (1917-1920), reproduced in the same "References" section. Some of the plans of EFC ship designs reproduced here were copied by Shipscribe from a private collection that is no longer available, but a master set of these plans is believed to be in the U.S. National Archives, Record Group 32, entry 214, Ship Design Drawings, and many of them were published in the Register of Ships Owned by United States Shipping Board, August 1, 1920, also reproduced here in the "References" section. Shipscribe has contributed from archival sources the addenda to the steel and wooden ship sections listed above, the update on concrete ships, and the entire section on tugs and barges, along with notes on individual designs and ships on some of the illustration pages and the photos. Editing of the McKellar articles was limited to some repagination. Sixty years after they were compiled, these remain the best, if not the only, works on their subject.

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The article by Norman L. McKellar is copyright © Hazel McKellar, 2007.