EFC Design 1031 (Terry): Illustrations
Click here for larger and more complete plans from the 1920 USSB ship register: Sheet 1, Data
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Notes: The EFC produced separate plans of the Design 1031 ships built by Bethlehem's Hanlon Plant at Wilmington, Del., and those by Terry Shipbuilding at Savannah, Ga., warranting separate pages here for the two variants. The plans show ships that are almost identical except for different wartime rigs. The Bethlehem rig consisted of a pair of short derrick posts right forward to serve the cargo hold in the bow, a short mast between them, and a single tall mast in the after well between the bridge island and the poop. The Terry ships had two masts without topmasts but with cargo booms in the two wells, the forward one being able to serve the forward cargo hold, plus a single thin mast acting as a topmast just aft of the bridge. Completed after the war, the Terry ships emerged with topmasts on the masts in the wells which allowed the deletion of the mast aft of the bridge. In the Bethlehem ships a full size mast was added in the forward well and the derrick posts and short mast between them right forward were removed. As a result all ships of both types soon ended up with two regular masts in the usual positions for tankers, one forward and one aft of the bridge. Terry Shipbuilding at Savannah, Ga. was started in 1916 by Edward Terry of Terry & Tench, a major construction company based in New York. The yard reportedly had 16 building ways. It started off with a contract of 24 May 1917 to build 20 composite McClelland cargo ships (see Design 1010) - wooden hulls with steel framing. On 12 March 1918 ten of these were cancelled and a new contract was issued for ten Design 1031 steel tankers (EFC Hulls 1392-1401). The yard only completed six cargo ships and five tankers, with four more cargo ships being suspended on 26 February 1919, cancelled on 10 October 1919, and delivered incomplete. The remaining five tankers, EFC Hulls 1397-1401, were suspended on 15 January 1919 and cancelled on 21 October 1919. Specifications: Design 1031 (Terry). Probably as the Bethlehem ships. All of the Terry ships went to private ownership immediately upon completion and were thus not shown in the 1920 list of USSB owned ships that provided the specifications cited here for the other ships. |
| S.S. Gertrude Kellogg, originally S.S. Gladysbe (Design 1031, Terry variant, EFC Hull 1394) on 19 November 1943. (NARA: RG-80-G-272166) (Click photo to enlarge) |
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S.S. Gertrude Kellogg ex Gladysbe (Design 1031, Terry, EFC Hull 1394) Wearing neutrality markings in a photo dated on the back 14 August 1941. She is at either New York or New Orleans. Photo No. GertrudeKellogg_1958_009 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/1958 |
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S.S. Gertrude Kellogg ex Gladysbe (Design 1031, Terry, EFC Hull 1394) Without wartime fittings or markings, probably soon before World War II. Photo No. GertrudeKellogg_1958_010 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/1958 |
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S.S. Paco ex Dartford (Design 1031, Terry, EFC Hull 1393) Photographed on 9 September 1943 by a blimp from ZP-22 based at Houma, La. Photo No. 80-G-271451 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G |
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S.S. Paco ex Dartford (Design 1031, Terry, EFC Hull 1393) Photographed on 22 September 1943 by a blimp from ZP-22 based at Houma, La. Photo No. 80-G-271513 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G |
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S.S. Gertrude Kellogg ex Gladysbe (Design 1031, Terry, EFC Hull 1394) Photographed on 4 May 1944 by a patrol aircraft from Fleet Air Wing 12 (FAW-12) based at Key West. Photo No. 80-G-224826 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G |
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