The Kooringa was the world's first cell container ship ( "custom-designed cellular container ship to handle 20-ton containers"), was the planned and as such built.
The container ship Kooringa was built in 1964 at the New South Wales State Dockyard in Dykes Point, Newcastle , New South Wales , as hull number 72 on behalf of the shipping companies Associated Steamships Pty. Ltd. and McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co in Adelaide . After being handed over in May 1964, she opened a container service in Fremantle on June 19, 1964 between Melbourne and Fremantle, which was joined by two additional container ships in 1969, the Kanimbla and Manoora . This service was maintained until 1975. The ship was then sold and operated under the name Island Container from 1976 , from 1989 as Fair Union and United Way , until it was taken out of service in 1992 and sold for demolition. This began on November 3, 1992 in Nantong.
technology
Superstructures and machinery were arranged aft. The propulsion of the ship consisted of a Sulzer two-stroke diesel engine with 5500 kW. On deck there were two gantry crane bridges that could be moved in the longitudinal direction, each with a load capacity of 17 tons, with which the Kooringa was designed to handle loads of around 10,000 tons in 36 hours with simultaneous loading and unloading operations. The two holds were each 32 m long and 14.30 m wide, together they could hold 184 TEU and were closed with a total of twelve pontoon hatch covers. A further 92 TEU could be carried on deck, of which 37 could be supplied with electricity as refrigerated containers.
literature
Schönknecht, Rolf; Laue, Uwe: ocean freighters of world shipping . Volume 1. transpress Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-344-00182-5 (library of ship types).
