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EFC Design 1120: Notes & Illustrations


EFC Design 1120

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Notes: Following negotiations with the Japanese in March and April 1918, the EFC contracted on 20 May 1918 with the Harima Shipyard Co., Toba, Japan, for one 10500-ton Design 1120 ship, EFC Hull 2010 and Yard No. 13. The EFC also purchased one similar ship previously built by Harima: Yard No. 9 (Eastern Shore, 11054 dwt).

Specifications: Design 1120 (S.S. Eastern Soldier, EFC Hull 2010): Steel Cargo. Deadweight tons: 10500 designed, 10625 actual. Dimensions: 425' length pp x 53.7' beam mld. x 37.5' depth mld., 28.8' draft loaded. Propulsion: 1 screw, 1 triple expansion engine, 3 Scotch boilers, 3200 IHP, 10.5 kts. Configuration: Flush shelter deck, 3 decks, 5 holds, 7 hatches.

S.S. Eastern Shore (As Design 1120)
S.S. Eastern Shore (As Design 1120). This photograph was published in a 1925 EFC sales catalog and labeled as Design 1020, though it shows an earlier ship of the same type that was purchased while building and was completed in September 1918. The one contract-built Design 1020 ship, Eastern Soldier, was sold in 1922. (NHHC: S-528-A) (Click photo to enlarge)