The ships of the Mærsk L-class , built from 1983 to 1985 , was a class of container ships owned by the Danish shipping company AP Møller-Mærsk . The container ships were among the largest in the world when they were built.
The series was built and delivered between 1983 and 1985 by the Danish Odense Staalskibsværft . She continued the development of the seven similar ships of the previous Mærsk L-Class (1980) , the shipyard's first container ship type. 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 have a capacity of 2723 TEU (loaded containers weighing 14 tonnes each), or 3840 TEU in real slots, whereby the McKinney Mærsk was designed in a slightly larger construction variant. The ships have 14 holds equipped with cell guides. Ten of the cargo holds closed with pontoon hatch covers are in front, four behind the three-quarters aft.
The twelve-cylinder main engines of the type Burmeister & Wain 12L90GBE used were among the most powerful two-stroke diesel engines on the market at the time.
