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Wooden Ship Contracts Arranged by EFC Design

The McKellar wooden ship list is arranged alphabetically by shipbuilder. This table provides a list of the contracts for these wooden ships arranged as in McKellar's later steel ship list, by EFC design and then alphabetically by builder, for those who prefer that arrangement. The opportunity was taken to add the numbers and dates of the contracts, the EFC hull numbers of the ships in them, and the cancellations and other changes in the disposition of the ships that occurred after the end of the war in November 1918. Contracts not in McKellar's list, all cancelled and nearly all for barges, were also added. Changes made after 21 April 1919, the date of the last relevant document consulted, may not appear here but probably do appear in McKellar's list. The changes are usually presented in ascending order of EFC number. For example, in the listing for EFC hulls 637-642 built by Dantzler, hulls 637-638 (BOONE and MOSS POINT) were completed as initially intended, hull 639 (ESCATAWPA) was completed as a flush deck barge (FDB), hull 640 (ABERFOIL) was completed without machinery, and hulls 641-642 (AMADAR and ASHTON) were cancelled. Note that by April 1919 the Shipping Board's Division of Operations had no interest in the acceptance or delivery of the hulls without machinery, and most of the later ones were instead delivered by their builders to the Construction Division's district managers and immediately laid up. The information presented in this table is all from the records of the United States Shipping Board (Record Group 32) in the U.S. National Archives.


Source: U.S. National Archives, Record Group 32, Records of the United States Shipping Board, primarily those of the Emergency Fleet Corporation's Ship Construction Division including its Contract and Legal Divisions.