EFC Design 1092 (Kiangnan type): Notes & Illustrations
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Notes: In its effort to relieve the scarcity of tonnage the Shipping Board concluded various agreements providing for the acquisition of ships from neutral and allied countries. On 10 July 1918 the EFC signed a contract with the Kiangnan Dock & Engineering Works at Shanghai, China, to build four steel vessels of 10,000 deadweight tons each (Design 1092, EFC Hulls 2083-2086), with the option of building 80,000 deadweight tons additional. This company was owned and operated by the Chinese Government with the aid of a technical staff, most of whom came from Scotland. Steel was be exported to China from the United States for the building of these vessels on terms similar to the arrangements for the vessels being built in Japanese yards for the Shipping Board. Delivery of the vessels was to begin six months after the delivery to the builder of the materials that were to be furnished by the Shipping Board for the first vessel. (Source: Annual Report of the USSB, 1918, pp. 53-54.) Specifications: Design 1092 (S.S. Mandarin, EFC Hull 2083): Steel Cargo. Deadweight tons: 11000 designed, 10200 actual. Dimensions: 429' length pp x 55' beam mld. x 37.9' depth mld., 27' draft loaded. Propulsion: 1 screw, 1 triple expansion engine, 3 Scotch boilers, 3000 IHP, 10.5 kts. Configuration: Flush shelter deck, 3 decks, 5 holds, 6 hatches. |
| S.S. Cathay (Design 1092, EFC Hull 2086). This ship was completed by the Kiangnan Dock and Engineering Works, Shanghai, China, in December 1921 and was sold by the USSB to the Dollar Steamship Line in 1922. She is shown here at Vancouver, B.C., with Dollar Line funnel markings but before she was renamed Diana Dollar. (Posted on Facebook on 6 October 2024 by Henk van der Linden, photo by Walter E. Frost copyright City of Vancouver) (Click photo to enlarge) |
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S.S. Alabaman, ex Cathay (Design 1092, EFC Hull 2086) The Dollar Line sold this ship, then named Diana Dollar, in 1936 to the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. Inc. who renamed her Alabaman. Here she is docked in Philadelphia on April 3, 1939. Photo No. None Source: Posted on Facebook on 6 October 2024, Dave Boone on post by Henk van der Linden |
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S.S. Carolinian, ex Oriental (Design 1092, EFC Hull 2085) Photographed on 10 July 1944 off the Virginia Capes headed south, probably by a blimp from ZP-14 based at NAS Weeksville, North Carolina. Photo No. 80-G-239230 Source: U.S National Archives, RG-80-G |
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