EFC Designs 1015 (Moore & Scott type) and
1015-R (refrigerated variant): Notes & Illustrations
Click here for a complete plan of the refrigerated Design 1015-R (above) from the 1920 USSB ship register: Sheet 1
Click here for plans of the non-refrigerated Design 1015: Sheet 1, Sheet 2, Data
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Notes: The Moore & Scott Iron Works (which became the Moore Shipbuilding Co. in July 1917) built its first three full-sized cargo ships (Capto, Thordis, and Sagaland) for Norwegian interests in 1916-1917. Orders for six more ships followed from Norway and Britain, and for these Moore enlarged and modified its design. Compared to the 8800 ton ships being built elsewhere (the future Design 1013), the Moore ships (the future Design 1015) were shorter and had slightly less beam but had greater depth giving them a greater deadweight tonnage. They were shelter deck ships with two decks (shelter and upper), one 'tween deck, and two hull islands (forecastle and poop). See the page on EFC Design 1037 for more on two-decked shelter deck ships. They were also built on the Isherwood system of longitudinal framing instead of the transverse system. Longitudinal framing was used in all of the EFC's tanker designs but only in a few of its cargo ships, primarily Designs 1012, 1014-1016, 1027, 1032, 1037, and 1046. Requisitioned Sisters: The six ships ordered from the Moore & Scott Iron Works in 1916-1917 by British and Norwegian interests (ultimately five for Britain and one for Norway), Yard nos. 113-118, were requisitioned by the Shipping Board on 3 August 1917 and are covered in the Requisitioned Ships portion of the McKellar list. The last of the initial three smaller ships, the 7242 dwt Sagaland for Norway, was also requisitioned and became Mount Shasta. Specifications: Design 1015 (S.S. Alloway, EFC Hull 143): Steel Cargo. Deadweight tons: 9400 designed, 9248 actual. Dimensions: 416' length oa, 402.5' pp x 53' beam mld. x 34.5' depth mld., 26.4' draft loaded. Propulsion: 1 screw, 1 G.E. turbine, 4 Heine water tube boilers, 2800 SHP, 8.3 avg. kts. Configuration: Shelter deck with poop & focsle, 2 decks, 4 holds, 5 hatches. |
| S.S. Alloway (Design 1015, EFC Hull 143) on a trial trip on 5 July 1918 after construction by the Moore S.B. Co., Oakland, Calif. Following the custom of many shipbuilders at this time, she is flying numerous flags and pennants, including large ones showing the names of the ship and her builder. She is fitted with the special wartime rig in which the two topmasts on the masts were replaced by a single topmast stepped near the stack (in this case on an additional light mast), primarily to support wireless antennas. (NARA: RG-32-S) (Click photo to enlarge) |
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S.S. Yosemite (As Design 1015, Yard No. 114) This ship, along with a few ships of Design 1013, was completed with an early British-style wartime rig consisting of pairs of hinged double derrick posts close abreast in place of the usual single masts. The posts would be lowered on hinges to lie flat on the deck to conceal the ship's direction of movement. Her original Norwegian name was Nordgren. Her immediate predecessor Coronado, ex War Bay, which had the same rig, ran a trial trip on 15 January 1918. Photo No. 165-WW-498-070 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-165-WW |
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S.S. Yellowstone (As Design 1015, Yard No. 115) On a trial trip on 20 April 1918 after construction by the Moore Shipbuilding Co. Her original British name was War Buoy. She was completed after the shift to the standard wartime rig of two lower masts without topmasts plus a single topmast stepped on a light pole or on a derrick post amidships. In this image it appears that her after lower mast has not yet been stepped. Photo No. NH 65076 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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S.S. Pasadena (As Design 1015, Yard No. 116) On a trial trip on 11 May 1918 after construction by the Moore Shipbuilding Co. and displaying her standard wartime rig including both lower masts. Her original British name was War Beacon. Note the absence in this and the earlier ships of dazzle camouflage. Photo No. None Source: NARA RG-32-S, also NHHC NH 65121 |
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S.S. Fresno (As Design 1015, Yard No. 118) On a trial trip on 20 June 1918 after construction by the Moore Shipbuilding Co. Her original British name was War Coast. The dazzle camouflage introduced at this time was later called by the The Morning Oregonian in a different context a "fantastic decorative effect," even more so than shown in the photos as it employed many colors. Photo No. None Source: NARA RG-32-S, also NHHC NH 96111 |
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S.S. Zirkel (Design 1015, EFC Hull 150) On a trial trip on 25 September 1918 after construction by the Moore Shipbuilding Co. She was launched on 18 August 1918. The high quality of some of Moore's trial photos brings to mind some of the superb products of the darkroom at the Mare Island Navy Yard during World War II. Photo No. None Source: NARA RG-19-LCM, also NHHC NH 65052 |
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S.S. Oskawa (Design 1015, EFC Hull 145) On a trial trip on 29 December 1918 after construction by the Moore Shipbuilding Co. She was the first of eight refrigerated variants of Design 1015 to be built. Three sisters saw service as the Navy refrigerated cargo ships of the Arctic (AF 7) class and all eight lasted into or beyond World War II. Photo No. NH 65118 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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S.S. Guimba (Design 1015, EFC Hull 148) Fitting out at the Moore Shipbuilding Co. with a frosted sign announcing that she was a "Refrigerator." The logo below it is for the: "Shipley Construction and Supply Company, Marine Refrigeration." Graffiti scrawled at the top of the bow says "Plate handlers meet Wed. eve -- Go." Guimba was launched on 4 July 1918 but not completed until 7 June 1919. Photo No. None Source: NARA: RG-32-M Box 15 |
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S.S. Kamesit and Yamhill (Design 1015, EFC Hulls 151 and 146) General view of Kamesit (right) and Yamhill on 24 January 1919 at the Moore Shipbuilding Co. Kamesit had just run a trial trip on 19 January 1919. She was one of ten Moore cargo ships that were broken up at Baltimore in 1929-31. Yamhill was a refrigerated ship and soon became USS Arctic (AF 7). Photo No. None Source: NARA: RG-32-S |
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S.S. Chipchung (Design 1015, EFC Hull 1015) On a trial trip 23 May 1919 after construction by the Moore Shipbuilding Co. This and other postwar ships reverted to the normal peacetime rig with topmasts on each of the two masts and no pole mast amidships. Photo No. None Source: NARA RG-19-LCM, also NHHC NH 95857 |
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S.S. Cokesit (Design 1015, EFC Hull 1063) This was the first of ten ships of the regular Design 1015 type built by the new steel plant of the G.M. Standifer Construction Corp. at Vancouver, Wash. She was delivered on 3 May 1919. Standifer already had wooden shipbuilding yards at Vancouver and at Portland, Ore. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe |
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S.S. Iconium (Design 1015, EFC Hull 751) This was the third of ten Design 1015 ships built by the Seattle North Pacific Shipbuilding Co. She was delivered to the EFC on 25 August 1919. All ten ships from this yard had gone to the breakers by 1938, with Iconium leading the way in 1928. When fully loaded the sheer at the ends of this design was much more apparent then when riding light. The photo is by Webster & Stevens of Seattle who also photographed many other Seattle-built ships. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe |
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S.S. Chepadoa (Design 1015, EFC Hull 755) The ship's forward deck photographed on 2 October 1919. Note the wooden battens closing the hatches; they would be covered by tarpaulins before going to sea. This was the seventh of the ten ships of this type built by the Seattle North Pacific Shipbuilding Co. at Seattle Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe |
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S.S. Oakpark ex Jennie R. Morse (Design 1015, EFC Hull 981) This was the seventh of the ten ships of this type built by the Virginia S.B. Co. at Alexandria, Va. Begun as Bellyhoc, then Mason City, she was completed privately in April 1920 as Jennie R. Morse. She was renamed Oakpark in 1924 after being repossessed by the Shipping Board. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe |
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S.S. Hayden (Design 1015, EFC Hull 1467) Probably shown on a trial trip shortly before her completion in June 1920. This was the seventh of the ten ships of this type built by Walter W. Johnson's Union Construction Co. (ex Union Industrial Works), located in Oakland, Calif., not far from the Moore shipyard. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe |
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S.S. Mauna Kea, ex Diablo (Design 1015, EFC Hull 941) Anchored in a U.S. port on 18 June 1943. She was built by Pacific Coast Shipbuilding, Suisun Bay, Calif. Photo No. MaunaKea_12413_003 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/12413 |
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S.S. Lunacharski, ex Jalapa (Design 1015, EFC Hull 145) Photographed on 13 May 1944 west of Vancouver Island, Canada, heading southeast. She had been renamed Klamath in 1940 and was transferred to the USSR in 1943. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe |
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