Clifford J. Rogers (ship)

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Ship data
other ship names

Lampsia
Drosia

Ship type Container Ship
Shipyard Canadian Vickers, Montréal
Launch 1955
Whereabouts 1975 sunk
Ship dimensions and crew
length
102.24 m ( Lüa )
96.30 m ( Lpp )
width 14.33 m
Side height 7.46 m
Draft Max. 5.43 m
measurement 2,983 GRT
 
crew 15th
Machine system
machine 2 × Polar-Nohab diesel engines
Machine
performance 		1,800 hp (1,324 kW)
Service
speed 		11.75 kn (22 km / h)
Top
speed 		13.0 kn (24 km / h)
propeller 1
Transport capacities
Load capacity 4,005 dwt
Volume 6,140 m³

The Clifford J. Rogers was the world's first container ship designed and built as such . However, it was not built for the transport of ISO containers , but for a special size of the White Pass & Yukon Route and could also load ore.

history

The container ship Clifford J. Rogers was built in 1955 at the Canadian Vickers shipyard in Montréal, Canada on behalf of the White Pass & Yukon Railway. After being handed over on November 26, 1955, it opened a container service between Vancouver and Skagway . There the containers were reloaded onto the White Pass & Yukon railway line. The Clifford J. Rogers served on the route until it was replaced by the more modern Frank H. Brown in 1965. Then the ship was sold and from 1967 initially sailed under the old name for Marine Chartering from San Francisco, but home port London, between New Orleans and Central America. In addition, she was used on individual trips to Micronesia and New Zealand . Later the ship was in service for a Greek shipping company as Lampsia in the charter of the Navy Chartering. The ship finally sank during bad weather on December 11, 1975 about 90 nautical miles east of Cape Hatteras as Drosia on a voyage with sugar from Jamaica to New York, with 8 of the 15 crew members perishing.

technology

Superstructures and machinery were arranged aft. The ship's drive consisted of two four-stroke diesel engines made by Polar-Nohab (other source: Mirrlees), which acted on a shaft via a gearbox. For cargo handling, there were two A-masts on deck, each with four 10-tonne light cargo gear and an additional 30-tonne heavy lift boom . The two holds with a grain space of 6140.2 m 3 were closed with steel hatch covers at hatches 1 and 4 and with wooden hatch covers at hatches 2 and 3. The ship was able to hold a total of 168 units of the containers, each 2.44 meters long and 2.14 meters high, which were usually loaded with general cargo on the outward journey and asbestos slate on the return journey. In the remaining space next to the containers, zinc or lead ore could also be stowed.

literature

  • Freighter for ore and container transport in Hansa No. 9/10 of March 3, 1956, Schiffahrts-Verlag "Hansa" C. Schroedter & Co., Hamburg, p. 436.
  • Carpenter, R .: Container Ships . Model & Allied Publications, Hemel Hempstead 1971.

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