The great success of the Freedom ship type, which has been in production since 1968, and the demand for ever larger units on the trampoline and bulk market, prompted Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries and the design office Algonquin International to design the largest dimensions of the St. Lawrence Seaway to orient. The ships had five holds and a volume of 30,600 m³ (bulk goods) or 29,000 m³ (general cargo) and rectangular top side tanks arranged next to them. Four holds were particularly suitable for holding long goods. The small room 3 was designed in a box shape with a double outer skin in order to simplify the grain transport, it could also be used as a ballast room. The new type of loading gear developed by Algonquin consisted of five electro-hydraulically operated loading booms, each with a lifting force of 10 tons, each of which could be operated by only one man. Optionally, hanging decks could also be ordered for the transport of vehicles. The simple design, despite the versatile design for the transport of ores, bulk goods, wood and semi-finished products, but also containers, was undoubtedly also due to the fact that most of the Liberty and Victory ships still to be replaced by small shipping companies were operated with limited resources. The focus of the shipyard was on precisely these small shipping companies, for whom at that time it would have been difficult to finance the construction of a completely new type of ship.
The first ship of this type, the Attica , was handed over at the end of 1970 from the Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries shipyard to its new owner Faros Shipping Co. from Piraeus. A ship should be launched every month. At the start of production, the order backlog was already 24 units. One of these ships can still be found here and there , especially in ports in Asia and South America .
Based on the Fortune type, Campbell and IHI developed another design under the name Friendship , which was equipped with special hatches and a special loading gear .
Individual evidence
↑ Rolf Schönknecht / Uwe Laue: Ocean Freighters of World Shipping, Volume 1 . Transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin, ISBN 3-344-00182-5
literature
Harms, Hans: First "Fortune" standard freighter "Attica" . In: Ship and Harbor . Vol. 23, No.November 11 , 1971, p.876 .
Scott, Robert: Standard Ship Designs: Dry cargo, container and ro-ro vessels . Fairplay Publications, London 1984, ISBN 0-905045-54-8 .
