EFC Design 1058: Notes & Illustrations
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Notes: As of April 1917 the Baltimore Dry Docks & Ship Building Co. consisted of an Upper Plant, formerly the William Skinner & Sons Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and a Lower Plant, formerly the Columbian Iron Works and Drydock Company. A new South Plant was added later in 1917 to build larger ships including Design 1016 (q.v.) freighters and Design 1059 tankers. As of July 1919 the Upper Plant was a 9.6 acre facility with one 200-foot slip on which minesweepers were being built, and the Lower Plant was a 13.5 acre yard where ten 6,200-ton cargo ships (six of them refrigerated), ordered by European and American interests and requisitioned by the EFC, were being built for the Shipping Board. On 12 March 1918 the EFC ordered 6,000 ton Design 1058 oil tankers (EFC hulls 1337-1342) to follow the requisitioned 6,200-ton cargo ships in the Lower Plant. No earlier ships similar to these have been identified, suggesting that the design was new. After the war EFC Hulls 1339-1342 were suspended on 11 February 1919. Hulls 1339-1340 were soon reinstated on 21 February 1919 but EFC Hulls 1341-42 remained suspended and were cancelled on 21 October 1919. Hull 1342 was completed privately and Hull 1341 was sold to the builder. The Baltimore company's yards were bought in 1921 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. and the Upper and Lower Plants became its Key Highway or Upper Yard. Specifications: Design 1058 (S.S. Dannedaike, EFC Hull 1337): Steel Tanker. Deadweight tons: 6000 designed, 6008 actual. Dimensions: 354.5' length oa, 340' pp x 49' beam mld. x 28.6' depth mld., 23.25' draft loaded. Propulsion: 1 screw, 1 Westinghouse turbine, 2 Scotch boilers, 1800 SHP, 10 kts. |
| S.S. Dannedaike (Design 1058, EFC Hull 1337). Photographed on 23 June 1943 by a blimp from ZP-22 based at Houma, La. She was delivered on 13 December 1919 by the Baltimore D.D. & S.B. Co., Baltimore, Md. (NARA: RG-80-G-271913) (Click photo to enlarge) |
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S.S. Dannedaike (Design 1058, EFC Hull 1337) Probably photographed soon before World War II. Photo No. Dannedaike_1189_007 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/1189 |
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S.S. Pueblo ex City of Freeport (Design 1058, EFC Hull 1339) Photographed on 14 September 1943 by a blimp from ZP-22 based at Houma, La. Photo No. 80-G-271608 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G |
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S.S. Dannedaike (Design 1058, EFC Hull 1337) Photographed on 19 October 1943 by a blimp from ZP-22 based at Houma, La. Photo No. 80-G-271424 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G |
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S.S. Pueblo ex City of Freeport (Design 1058, EFC Hull 1339) Photographed on 26 October 1943 by a blimp from ZP-22 based at Houma, La. Photo No. 80-G-272108 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G |
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S.S. Ministro Lobos ex Danville (Design 1058, EFC Hull 1338) This ship was sold to an Argentine firm in 1923 and was scrapped in 1980. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe, from the William A. Schell collection |
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