EFC Design 1015 Modified (three island variant):
Notes & Illustrations
Click here for a plan of the Standifer three-island Design 1015 Modified (Arcturus and 4 others): Sheet 1
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Notes: On 20 September 1918 the EFC awarded the G. M. Standifer Construction Corp. a contract for "5 additional cargo vessels, 9500 tons," EFC Hulls 2826-30, following an order for ten Design 1015 ships. Plans and specifications, presumably those for Design 1015, were delivered by the EFC to Standifer in late October 1918. This contract was suspended on 11 February 1919 and then cancelled on 1 November 1919, around the time that the press reported that Standifer planned to begin six 9500-ton ships on his own account. By March 1920 Standifer was working on five 9500 dwt freighters for the Nafra Company of New York and its Green Star Line, and on 20 April 1920 the EFC issued a special contract (no. 3124-3) that apparently included the completion under its program of the five cancelled ships for a private operator. The design for these ships was modified, probably by Standifer and his customer, resulting in a three-island variant (with bridge island added) of Design 1015. When the EFC offered three of the ships for sale following the failure of the Green Star Line, it called them "Design 1015 Modified." Specifications: Design 1015 Modified (S.S. Arcturus, EFC Hull 2826): Steel Cargo. Deadweight tons: 9600 designed, 9601 actual. Dimensions: 402.5' pp x 53' beam mld. x 34.5' depth mld., 27.2' draft loaded. Propulsion: 1 screw, 1 triple expansion engine, 4 Heine water tube boilers, 2800 SHP, 10 avg. kts. Configuration: Shelter deck with 3 islands, 2 decks, 5 holds, 5 hatches. |
| S.S. Arcturus (Design 1015 Modified, EFC Hull 2826) photographed on 30 April 1920 by her builder, the G.M. Standifer Construction Corp. at Vancouver, Wash. This was one of five additional 9500-ton steel cargo ships ordered from Standifer on 20 September 1918 and subsequently reconfigured as three-island ships for completion for a private operator. (NARA: RG-19-E) (Click photo to enlarge) |
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S.S. Antinous (Design 1015 Modified, EFC Hull 2829) Built by the G.M. Standifer Construction Corp. at Vancouver, Wash., and completed in July 1920. In this modification of Design 1015 the two derrick posts serving a small amidships hold were moved aft of the bridge, the bridge was moved forward, and a full bridge island was added as in other three-island cargo ships. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe |
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S.S. Charles R. McCormick, ex Apus (Design 1015 Modified, EFC Hull 2830) Entering a U.S. port on 10 March 1941 with a full deck cargo of lumber and a severe port list. Photo No. CharlesRMcCormick_7283_006 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/7283 |
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S.S. Charles R. McCormick, ex Apus (Design 1015 Modified, EFC Hull 2830) Departing a U.S. port on 1 April 1942. Photo No. CharlesRMcCormick_7283_007 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/7283 |
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