EFC Design 1047: Notes & Illustrations
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Notes: EFC Designs 1045 through 1047 were designs already in use by three Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. facilities, 1047 (a tanker) at the former Union Iron Works yards at San Francisco and Alameda, Calif., 1046 (a freighter) at the Sparrows Point, Md., yard, and 1045 (a tanker) at the former Fore River Shipbuilding Co. at Quincy, Mass. Beginning in 1915 Bethlehem built in the San Francisco yard a series of tankers closely resembling Design 1047: Olinda, La Brea, Los Angeles, Acme, H.C. Folger, J.W. VanDyke, Paulsboro, and George G. Henry, followed at both San Francisco and Alameda by the eight requisitioned ships identified below. The EFC then ordered a total of 18 ships: EFC Hulls 1127-1138 on 31 December 1917 and EFC Hulls 1676-1681 on 30 April 1918. Bethlehem also ordered ten Design 1047 ships at its Sparrows Point, Md., yard: EFC Hulls 1145-1147 on 31 December 1917, EFC Hulls 1551-1554 on 18 March 1918, and EFC Hulls 1673-1675 on 30 April 1918. The EFC also issued Contract 416 on 10 July 1918 with the Southwestern Shipbuilding Co. of San Pedro, Calif., for six Design 1047 tankers (either EFC Hulls 2210-2215 or 2206-2211), but although Bethlehem offered to the EFC to provide the plans free of charge the contract was not executed and the order was changed in September 1918 to Design 1019 freighters. After the war the Bethlehem yards continued to produce tankers of this type: William H. Doheny at San Francisco, Franklin K. Lane, Crampton Anderson, Algonquin, W.S. Miller, Yorba Linda, and Frank G. Drum at Alameda, and Argon, Ario, Rochester, and Aladdin at Sparrows Point. Requisitioned Sisters: During 1916-1917 American interests placed orders for eight tankers with the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (formerly the Union Iron Works) yard at Alameda, Calif., to a design that later became EFC Design 1047. These ships, Yard nos. 140 and 143-149 Wilhelm Jebsen, J.E. O'Neil, Herbert L. Pratt, S.M. Spalding, Paul H. Harwood, W.S. Rheem, W.M. Irish, and W.M. Burton), were requisitioned by the Shipping Board on 3 August 1917 and soon reconveyed to their owners. They are covered in the Requisitioned Ships portion of the McKellar list. Specifications: Design 1047 (S.S. Derbyline, EFC Hull 1127): Steel Tanker. Deadweight tons: 10100 designed, 10100 actual. Dimensions: 435' length pp x 56' beam mld. x 33.5' depth mld., 25.9' draft loaded. Propulsion: 1 screw, 1 triple expansion engine, 3 Scotch boilers, 2800 IHP, 11 kts. [See IME 4.19 p.196] |
| S.S. Hulaco (Design 1047, EFC Hull 1553) photographed on 26 September 1919 upon completion by the Bethlehem S.B. Corp., Sparrows Point, Md. The Sparrows Point Design 1047 ships had a light mast forward flanked by two short derrick posts, as in the Design 1045 ships built by Bethlehem, Quincy. (NARA: RG-32-UB) (Click photo to enlarge) |
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S.S. W. M. Burton (As Design 1047, Yard no. 149) Photographed on 21 June 1918 by the Bethlehem yard at Alameda, Cal. The third short mast aft in the eight requisitioned ships was omitted in the EFC contract-built ships. She was delivered to the EFC and reconveyed to the Atlantic Refining Co. on 25 June 1918. Photo No. None Source: NARA RG-32-S Box 32 |
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S.S. W. S. Rheem (As Design 1047, Yard no. 147) Photographed on 20 August 1918 by the Bethlehem yard at Alameda, Cal.. Photo No. None Source: NARA RG-32-S Box 21 |
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S.S. Dilworth (Design 1047, EFC Hull 1131) On a trial trip. She was delivered to the EFC on 13 January 1920 Photo No. None Source: NARA: RG-32-S Box 22 |
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S.S. Utacarbon (Design 1047, EFC Hull 1133) On a trial trip around 25 March 1920. The Alameda-built Design 1047 ships had a full-sized foremast instead of the light mast further forward flanked by two derrick posts in the Sparrows Point ships. Photo No. None Source: NARA: RG-32-S |
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S.S. Utacarbon (Design 1047, EFC Hull 1133) Photographed on trials around 25 March 1920. None of the contract-built Design 1047 ships had the short third mast aft of the stack that was carried by the eight requisitioned ships of this type. Late in World War II Utacarbon was designated USS Yucca (IX-214) as a storage tanker. Photo No. None Source: NARA: RG-32-S |
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S.S. Hambro (Design 1047, EFC Hull 1679) A view of the after part of her tank deck taken ca. late 1920 at her builder's yard with destroyers fitting out ahead. Note the small hatches on top of her oil cargo tanks and the walkway between the poop and the bridge house amidships. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe |
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S.S. Massachusetts ex Dungannon (Design 1047, EFC Hull 1137) Probably photographed soon before U.S. entry into World War II. Dungannon was renamed Massachusetts in 1941. She is not wearing neutrality markings. Photo No. Massachusetts_9731_003 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/9731 |
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S.S. Dilworth (Design 1047, EFC Hull 1131) Departing an American port on 30 November 1941 without neutrality markings. Photo No. Dilworth_1267_008 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/1267 |
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S.S. Beaconlight ex Richconcal (Design 1047, EFC Hull 1136) Probably photographed shortly before World War II. She is displaying Panamanian neutrality markings after a 1940 change from U.S. registry. Photo No. Beaconlight_6928_001 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/6928 |
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S.S. Antietam (Design 1047, EFC Hull 1554) Arriving in an American port on 13 January 1942. Her rig forward identifies her as a Sparrows Point-built ship. Photo No. Antietam_6733_016 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/6733 |
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S.S. Massachusetts ex Dungannon (Design 1047, EFC Hull 1137) Arriving at an American port on 12 February 1942. Photo No. Massachusetts_9731_002 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/9731 |
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S.S. Durango (Design 1047, EFC Hull 1138) At Pearl Harbor in May 1942. Photo No. 80-G-64642 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G |
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S.S. Beacon Hill ex Hoven (Design 1047, EFC Hull 1146) Arriving at City Island on 21 August 1942. Photo No. BeaconHill_6930_009 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/6930 |
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S.S. Hagood (Design 1047, EFC Hull 1673) Arriving in a U.S. port on 20 June 1943. She was built at Sparrows Point. Photo No. Hagood_8400_006 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/8400 |
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S.S. Gulfpoint ex Hahatonka (Design 1047, EFC Hull 1674) Photographed on 13 February 1944 with P-38 aircraft stowed on deck amidships headed eastbound just off the Virginia Capes by a blimp from ZP-14 based at NAS Weeksville, North Carolina. She was a Sparrows Point ship. Photo No. 80-G-215557 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G |
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