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| Author: | Novice [ March 31st, 2014, 9:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: US Merchant ships |
the C2 S B1 cargo ships were built in large numbers, many completed as Attack Transports (AKA) for USN during WW2. Many of those were sold commercially after the war to US operators. The Waterman Steamship Corp. had several ships bought to make up for ships lost during the war. One such ship was the Young America ![[ img ]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/236277251/SS%20Young%20America.PNG)
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| Author: | eswube [ April 1st, 2014, 7:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: US Merchant ships |
Great work! |
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| Author: | Radome [ April 1st, 2014, 9:25 am ] |
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Awesome! |
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| Author: | Novice [ April 5th, 2014, 9:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: US Merchant ships |
During the early 1960's the containers revolution started by many US shipping operators, each company having its own unique sized containers. The Waterman Steamship Corporation was purchased by McLean Industries Inc who was paramount in the creation of the containers revolution. For that end he set up the Sea-Land Services Inc. and some C2 type cargo ships were converted to the transport of containers. One of the early conversions was the C2 S E1 type cargo ship SS Wacosta ![[ img ]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/236277251/C2%20S%20E1%20SS%20Wacosta.PNG)
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| Author: | Hood [ April 5th, 2014, 9:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: US Merchant ships |
Nice work Novice. |
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| Author: | rd77 [ April 5th, 2014, 10:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: US Merchant ships |
Nice piece of history there, Novice! I wonder how many (or rather: few) TEU she was! |
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| Author: | eswube [ April 5th, 2014, 10:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: US Merchant ships |
Excellent work. |
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| Author: | maomatic [ April 5th, 2014, 11:00 am ] |
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Great work! |
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| Author: | KimWerner [ April 5th, 2014, 11:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: US Merchant ships |
Novice, you've done it again 
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| Author: | Novice [ April 5th, 2014, 3:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: US Merchant ships |
Thank you all. @ rd77 These containers were unique and were 35 feet long. It was only later that the 20 feet standard container adopted (i believe when the use of containers was widely spread around 1970) |
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