SL-18 class

SL-18 class

Ship data Ship type Turbine container ship Shipping company Sea-Land Corporation Shipyard Bremer Vulkan, Bremen Bethlehem Steel, Sparrows Point / Baltimore

Ship dimensions and crew length 219.5 m ( Lüa ) width 29 m Side height 16.5 m Draft Max. 10.4 m measurement 25,644 GRT 10,811 NRT

Machine system machine Geared steam turbine Machine performance 32,000 PS (23,536 kW) Service speed 23.0 kn (43 km / h) propeller 1

Transport capacities Container ~ 1664 TEU

Others

The SL-18 class was a class of four container ships of the type C7-S-88a of the US shipping company Sea-Land Corporation , which were originally ordered by the Matson shipping company. Sea-Land commissioned the ships between 1970 and 1974. When they were built, the container ships of the SL-18 class were the first container ships planned and built as such by the Sea-Land shipping company.

history

All four SL-18 ships were designed and commissioned by the San Francisco-based shipping company Matson Navigation Company. The two units manufactured by Bremer Vulkan in Bremen in 1970/71 were transferred to the Sea-Land shipping company during construction, as Matson withdrew from the planned service. The two construction contracts for the ships built in 1973/74 at the Bethlehem Steel shipyard in Baltimore were taken over by the Pacific Far East Line (PFEL), which adapted the design for their purposes. The PFEL filed for bankruptcy before the ships, each costing 25.2 million US dollars, were completed, whereupon these ships were also taken over by Sea-Land.

technology

Bremer Vulkan built in 1970 on behalf of the US shipping company Matson a design that deviated from the usual container ships with a command bridge in front. The Bremer Vulkan supplied two units, while two more were built at Bethlehem Steel in the USA according to German plans. When they were built, the two SL-18-class ships built at Bremer Vulkan were designed for the transport of 1175 24-foot containers, a standard Matson standard at the time, and a further 148 TEUs, which made it a bit difficult to achieve performance with conventional ones Compare container ships. The two new buildings from Bethlehem Steel held 1664 TEU. Sea-Land switched to the operation of 20 and 40 foot containers while the ships were being completed. However, the cell guides of both ships from Bremer Vulkan were prepared for the flexible handling of different container dimensions. All ships in the series had spaces for 170 refrigerated containers.

The ships

SL-18 class
Building name	Shipyard / construction number	IMO number	Commissioning	Later names and whereabouts
ST Alexander	Bremen volcano / 957	7022174	December 31, 1970	SL 180 (1970) → Sea-Land Venture → canceled on August 15, 1989 at SA Steel Enterprise in Chittagong
HP Baldwin	Bremen volcano / 958	7033020	March 16, 1971	SL 181 (1971) → Sea-Land Economy → canceled from April 23, 1989 at Chien Yu Steel in Kaohsiung
Australia Bear	Bethlehem Steel / 4639	7224306	March 30, 1973	Sea-Land Consumer (1974) → CSX Consumer (2000) → Horizon Consumer (2003) → Matson Consumer (2016) → 2018 demolition in Brownsville
New Zealand Bear	Bethlehem Steel / 4640	7366312	April 22, 1974	Sea-Land Producer (1974) → CSX Producer (2000) → Horizon Producer (2003) → Matson Producer (2015) → Launched in 2015 → scrapped

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FOLLOWUP: Former Matson Lurline leaves T-5 on last voyage. February 19, 2017, accessed May 1, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Weekly Vessel Scrapping Report: 2019 Week 36 , September 13, 2019, accessed May 1, 2020 . 

literature

• Cudahy, Brian J .: Box boats . How container ships changed the world. Fordham University Press, New York 2006, ISBN 0-8232-2568-2 .