EFC Design 1122: Notes & Illustrations
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Notes: Between 1916 and 1920 Kawasaki built 75 9100-dwt stock boats or standard steamers of the Dai-ichi Daifuku (or Taifuku) Maru type. These were built on the yard's account without desbuyers. They were based on an earlier Kawasaki ship (Siam Maru, 1916) but used an Isherwood structure to shorten the construction period and reduce the amount of steel used. This structure also allowed an increased full load draft and deadweight tonnage. With its 30th Daifuku Maru, Raifuku Maru (Yard no. 427), Kawasaki set a world shipbuilding record of 30 days from start to completion. Critics noted that in service the capacity of the Daifuku Maru cargo ships proved to be too large for the hull type and the flush awning deck resulted in poor seaworthiness. The acquired USS Argonne was Daifuku Maru no. 1. (Source: Japanese Wikipedia via link to "Dai-ichi Taifuku Maru-class" at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raifuku_Maru) Following negotiations with the Japanese in March and April 1918, the EFC contracted on 21 May 1918 with the Kawasaki Shipyard Co., Kobe, Japan, for five 9000-ton Design 1122 ships, EFC Hulls 2014-2018 and Yard Nos. 454-458. It also contracted on 17 May 1918 with the Mitsui Bussan Co., Uno, Japan, for two ships of the same design, EFC Hulls 2028-2029 and Yard Nos. 32-33. The EFC also purchased seven ships of 9027 to 9104 deadweight tons previously built by the Kawasaki yard: Eastern Queen, Easterner, Eastern Sun, Eastern Sea, East Wind, East Cape, and Easterling. These purchased ships were Daifuku Maru nos. 18-21 and 26-28 and Yard nos. 407-08, 410, 412, 414, and 420-21 respectively, while the contract ships came later and lacked Daifuku Maru numbers. Specifications: Design 1122 (S.S. Eastern Moon, EFC Hull 2014): Steel Cargo. Deadweight tons: 9000 designed, 8978 actual. Dimensions: 385' length pp x 51' beam mld. x 28' depth mld., 27.1' draft loaded. Propulsion: 1 screw, 1 triple expansion engine, 3 Scotch boilers, 3000 IHP, 10.5 kts. Configuration: Flush shelter (awning) deck, 3 decks, 5 holds, 5 hatches. |
| S.S. Calmar, originally Eastern Importer (Design 1122), photographed on 15 March 1944 off Cape Hatteras headed south by southwest by a blimp from ZP-14 based at NAS Weeksville, North Carolina. This ship was completed by the Mitsui Dockyard, Tama, Japan, in April 1920. (NARA: RG-80-G-222601) (Click photo to enlarge) |
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S.S. Raifuku Maru (As Design 1122, Japanese) Built at the Kawasaki Dockyard in Kobe, Japan, as Daifuku Maru no. 30 in a record 30 days and completed in November 1918. On 21 April 1925 she sank in a heavy storm in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of her entire crew of 38. Photo No. None Source: NARA RG-32-M |
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