EFC Design 1059: Notes & Illustrations
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Notes: As of April 1917 the Baltimore Dry Docks & Ship Building Co. consisted of a Lower Plant, formerly the Columbian Iron Works and Drydock Company, and an Upper Plant, formerly the William Skinner & Sons Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. The Lower Plant was building a series of 6,200-ton cargo ships for private European and American interests and beginning in August 1917 the Upper Plant built seven minesweepers for the Navy. Following U.S. entry into the war the firm acquired a tract of 36.5 acres where it built a new South Plant which contained four 500-foot concrete building slips, two 70 feet wide and two 60 feet wide. On 30 June 1917 the EFC ordered eight 8,800-ton Design 1016 (q.v.) cargo ships to be built at the South Plant. Later in 1917 Theodore E. Ferris, the EFC's naval architect and consulting engineer, examined and approved designs and specifications submitted by shipbuilders for standardized vessels that included four freighters and two tankers. The tankers were a 10,000-ton design by the Baltimore Dry Docks & Ship Building Co which was designated Design 1030 and a 7,500 deadweight ton design by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.'s Harlan Plant at Wilmington, Del. which was designated Design 1031. Design 1030 was a "Standard Tankship" of 10,000 deadweight tons measuring 444.0' oa, 430.0' pp x 59.0' molded beam x 33.5' molded depth. Plans were not prepared for Design 1030, and instead its lines were revised and it was redesignated Design 1059, now of 10,300 tons and measuring 450.0' oa, 430.0' pp x 59.0' x 33.25'. On 28 February 1918 the EFC ordered twelve Design 1059 tankers, Hulls 1244-1255, to follow the Design 1016 cargo ships at the South Plant. After the war EFC Hulls 1248-1255 were suspended on 11 February 1919. Hulls 1248-1249 were soon reinstated on 21 February 1919 but hulls 1250-1255 remained suspended and were cancelled on 21 October 1919. Of these Hulls 1250-1253 were reordered as EFC Hulls 2858-2861 on 11 November 1919 (to use steel from the cancelled Design 1059 hulls 1250-1253 and Design 1058 hulls 1341-1342) and EFC Hulls 1254-1255 were completed privately. The Baltimore company's yards were bought in 1921 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. and the South Plant became its Fort McHenry or lower yard. Specifications: Design 1059 (S.S. Bethelridge, EFC Hull 1244): Steel Tanker. Deadweight tons: 10300 designed, 10254 actual. Dimensions: 450' length oa, 430' pp x 59' beam mld. x 33.25' depth mld., 25.4' draft loaded. Propulsion: 1 screw, 1 Parsons turbine, 3 Scotch boilers, 2700 SHP, 10 kts. |
| S.S. Bidwell (Design 1059, EFC Hull 1248) photographed on 25 June 1943 by a blimp based at Houma, Louisiana. Note the third short mast aft of the stack. This class was built by the Baltimore D.D. & S.B. Co., Baltimore, Md. (NARA: RG-80-G-271905) (Click photo to enlarge) |
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S.S. District of Columbia (Design 1059, EFC Hull 2858) At anchor in an American port around the time of U.S. entry into World War II. Photo No. DistrictOfColumbia_1270_008 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/1270 |
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S.S. Cities Service Kansas ex Cecil County (Design 1059, EFC Hull 1248) Departing an American port on 10 December 1941. Photo No. CitiesServiceKansas_973_010 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/973 |
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S.S. Cities Service Kansas ex Cecil County (Design 1059, EFC Hull 1248) At anchor in a U.S. port on 2 December 1942. Photo No. CitiesServiceKansas_973_006 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/973 |
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S.S. Cities Service Ohio ex Tuxpanoil (Design 1059, EFC Hull 2859) At anchor in a U.S. port on 23 December 1942. Photo No. CitiesServiceOhio_5769_005 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/5769 |
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S.S. Bidwell (Design 1059, EFC Hull 1248) Photographed on 11 June 1943 by a blimp from ZP-14 based at NAS Weeksville, North Carolina.. Photo No. 80-G-71279 Source: NARA |
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S.S. Bidwell (Design 1059, EFC Hull 1248) Photographed on 25 June 1943 by a blimp from ZP-22 based at Houma, La. Photo No. 80-G-271904 Source: NARA |
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S.S. Cities Service Ohio ex Tuxpanoil (Design 1059, EFC Hull 2859) Photographed on 22 July 1943 off Cape Hatteras by a blimp from ZP-14 based at NAS Weeksville, North Carolina. Photo No. 80-G-76554 Source: NARA |
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S.S. Cities Service Ohio ex Tuxpanoil (Design 1059, EFC Hull 2859) At anchor in a U.S. port on 28 September 1943. Photo No. CitiesServiceOhio_5769_003 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/5769 |
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S.S. Jamestown ex Miller County (Design 1059, EFC Hull 1246) Photographed on 20 November 1943 by a blimp from ZP-22 based at Houma, La. Photo No. 80-G-272168 Source: NARA |
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S.S. Jamestown ex Miller County (Design 1059, EFC Hull 1246) Departing an American port on 17 December 1943. Photo No. Jamestown_5989_004 Source: vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/5989 |
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S.S. Tuapse ex District of Columbia (Design 1059, EFC Hull 2858) At San Francisco circa 1943 after being loaned to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease. She was returned in 1945 and briefly became the Navy's station tanker Serapis (IX 213). Photo No. NH 89977 Source: NHHC |
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S.S. Cities Service Ohio ex Tuxpanoil (Design 1059, EFC Hull 2859) Photographed on 23 February 1944 by a blimp from ZP-22 based at Houma, La. Photo No. 80-G-272379 Source: NARA |
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S.S. Bidwell (Design 1059, EFC Hull 1248) Under the American flag, possibly after World War II. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe |
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