At the end of the 1960s, the Seatrain Lines shipping company commissioned the renowned New York company John J. McMullen Associates, Inc. (JJMA) to design the Euroliner ship. Starting in 1971, she had four of these container ships powered by P&W gas turbines built for regular trans-Atlantic freight traffic and operated them until 1981. The British shipping company Scarsdale Shipping Co., London ( J. & J. Denholm , Glasgow) gave the building contract and chartered the ships to Seatrain Lines on a long-term basis. The first to be launched on October 24, 1970 was the GTS Euroliner at the Rheinstahl Nordseewerke shipyard in Emden . The ship, which was delivered to its new owner on March 22, 1971, was powered by two Pratt & Whitney FT4 A-12 Turbo Power & Marine Systems gas turbines with 22,700 kW each. She reached a speed of 26.5 knots and used about 300 tons of fuel a day. The Euroliner achieved the speed record for cargo ships on the Atlantic. In 1981 all four ships were converted to diesel propulsion. During the renovation, Seatrain Lines went bankrupt and the ships were sold to the shipping company Ahrenkiel and continued to be operated by Orient Overseas Container Line during a long-term charter . After further sales and numerous renaming (1981 Seapac Trenton - 1981 Oriental Governor - 1986 YS Argosy - 1988 OOCL Britain - 1988 OOCL Dominance - 1990 Atlantic Senator - 1991 Al Muharraq - 1993 Bright River - 1995 Right River ) the ship was finally on 3. March 1995 canceled in Alang , India .
modification
Under the price pressure of the oil crisis of the 1970s, attempts were made to convert gas turbine ships to cheaper fuel quality. Since these attempts did not produce satisfactory results, the ships were converted to drive by two diesel engines at Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft , Hamburg, in 1981 , with the option to equip the ships with a single slow-running two-stroke diesel engine, which was the cheaper one Consumption would have resulted. However, two four-stroke medium-speed engines were installed because less cargo space was lost.
Sister ships
The three other ships in this series were the Eurofreighter , the Asialiner and the Asiafreighter , with the last two having a higher performance.
↑ a b Rolf Schönknecht, Uwe Laue: Ocean freighters of the world shipping . Volume 1, transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-344-00182-5 .
