The series was built and delivered from 1980 to 1983 by the Danish Odense Staalskibsværft . These were the shipyard's first full container ships, and their development continued in the construction-like ships of the subsequent Mærsk L-class (1983) . The customer for the series was the Copenhagen-based shipping company Maersk Line , with A / SD / S Svendborg & Dampskibsselskabet af 1912 A / S acting as the owner. The shipping company combined the ships of the two L-classes within the shipping company fleet.
The L-class ships are among the Panamax container ships and initially had a capacity of 2052 TEU, with the two units Luna Mærsk and Regina Mærsk being a slightly larger construction variant. After an extension in the mid-1980s, in which the ships of the larger successor series were aligned, the number of slots increased to 3,016 TEU. The ships have eleven holds equipped with cell guides. Seven of the cargo holds closed with pontoon hatch covers were in front, four behind the three-quarters aft. Due to the extension in the central nave, the proportion of cargo space in front of the superstructures increased later.
The twelve-cylinder main engines of the type Burmeister & Wain 12L90GFCA used were among the most powerful two-stroke diesel engines on the market at the time.
Three of the ships, the lead ship Laura Mærsk , the Leise Mærsk and the Lica Mærsk , were taken over by the Military Sealift Command (MSC) of the United States Navy in 1996/97 and converted into auxiliary ships of the Randall D. Shughart class . The remaining ships of the class were sold elsewhere in the second half of the 1990s, partly renamed to re-charter and later operated by other shipping companies, such as the Mediterranean Shipping Company .
The ships
Mærsk L class
Building name
Build number
IMO number
delivery
Later names and whereabouts
Laura Mærsk
83
7825394
July 9, 1980
1996 USNS Shughart (T-AKR-295), so underway
Quiet Mærsk
84
7825409
September 19, 1980
1996 USNS Yano (T-AKR-297), so in motion
Lexa Mærsk
85
7825411
January 16, 1981
1997 Maersk Tokyo , 2007 MSC Kyoto , scrapped from July 16, 2014 at Bansal International in Alang
Lica Mærsk
86
7825423
March 20, 1981
1997 USNS Soderman (T-AKR-299), 2000 USNS GySgt. Fred W. Stockham (T-AK-3017), so in motion
Leda Mærsk
87
7909413
November 20, 1981
1998 Maersk Toba , 2007 MSC Toba , scrapped in Alang on May 1, 2010
Luna Mærsk
88
7909425
January 22, 1982
1991 Newport Bay , 1992 Luna Mærsk , 1996 Maersk Tacoma , 2002 Safmarine Limpopo , 2002 Maersk Tacoma , 2006 Emirates Wats , 2008 Mandship Tacoma , 2009 Tacoma , canceled from February 26, 2009
Regina Mærsk
99
8300119
July 10, 1983
1995 Leise Mærsk , 1999 Maersk Trieste , 2006 Trieste , scrapped in Xinhui from November 10, 2009
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