EL Bartlett

EL Bartlett

Ship data flag  United States Ship type Ro-Pax - Ferry Callsign WY6244 home port Juneau Owner Alaska Marine Highway Systems Shipyard Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Company, Jeffersonville Build number 2065 Commissioning July 1969 Decommissioning 2003 (as a ferry) Whereabouts Scrapped in 2019

Ship dimensions and crew length 58.83 m ( Lüa ) width 16.21 m Draft Max. 3.88 m measurement 933 BRT / 384 NRT

Machine system machine 2 × Fairbanks-Morse - diesel engine Machine performance 2,550 kW (3,467 hp) Top speed 12 kn (22 km / h) propeller 2

Transport capacities Load capacity 500 tdw Permitted number of passengers 236 Vehicle capacity 29 cars

Others Classifications American Bureau of Shipping IMO no. 6927810

The EL Bartlett was a 1969 built ferry of the Alaska Marine Highway System .

history

The ferry was under the hull number 2065 on the shipyard Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Company in Jeffersonville in the US state of Indiana built. It was delivered in June 1969 and put into service in July 1969. The construction costs amounted to 3.25 million US dollars . The ferry, named after the former US politician Edward Lewis Bartlett , was mainly used in Prince William Sound between Valdez , Whittier , Tatitlek and Cordova .

The ship was decommissioned in 2003 and sold to Lloyd Cannon, CEO of All Alaskan Seafoods, for $ 389,500 that year. Plans to use the ship for cruises to Alaska or as a ferry in Russia could not be realized. In 2008, Lloyd Cannon donated the ship to the Seattle Maritime Academy, which used it for teaching purposes for aspiring seafarers. Due to the age of the ship, it was no longer state-of-the-art and was therefore decommissioned in 2018 and scrapped in early 2019.

Technical specifications

The ship was two Fairbanks-Morse - diesel engines (type: 38D 81/8) with 2,550  kW power driven. It reached a speed of 12  knots . Two generators powered by Cummins diesel engines (type: NT855G3M) and an emergency generator powered by a General Motors diesel engine (type: 4/71) were available for generating electricity. The ship had a bow thruster powered by a Cummins diesel engine .

The ship had a continuous vehicle deck on which 29 cars could be transported. The vehicle deck was accessible from the bow and stern . The entrance at the bow was behind a bow visor that opened upwards . There was a stern ramp at the stern .

Web links

Commons : EL Bartlett  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Company, (JeffBoat), Jeffersonville IN , Shipbuilding History. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
2. ↑ Timothy Inklebarger: State peddles ferry on ebay ( Memento from August 20, 2003 in the Internet Archive ), Juneau Empire, August 5, 2003.
3. ^ ^{A b} Mary Pemberton: Longtime Alaskan is ferry's new owner ( Memento of September 3, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), Juneau Empire, October 12, 2003.
4. ^ History of AMHS , Alaska Marine Highway System, State of Alaska, Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
5. ↑ Longtime ferry vessel leaves Seattle Maritime Academy , Seattle Central College, January 30, 2019. Accessed February 26, 2020.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Training at Sea ( July 7, 2017 memento on the Internet Archive ), Seattle Maritime Academy.
7. ^ M / S EL Bartlett , Fakta om Fartyg. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
8. ^ Southern Alaska Transportation Plan, Shuttle Ferry Study , Elliott Bay Design Group, January 18, 2010 (PDF, 786 kB). Retrieved February 26, 2020.