The C2-C-Class was one of six container ships existing class of the American shipping company Sea-Land Service . The units were built as conversions of former combination ships of the type C2-S-E1 and were the shipping company's first full container vessels (English: "cellular container vessel") on which containers were stowed and locked according to today's principle. Their construction makes them pioneers in container shipping.
The ships of the C2-C class were pioneers of intermodal transport . In terms of shipbuilding, they represented a new type of ship in 1957, because while Sea-Land's first four ships of the T2 class were prepared for the transport of containers by so-called "Spardecks" above the actual main deck structure, each container still had to be lashed individually on deck and especially the charterers and unloaders had been convinced of the feasibility of container transport, a different approach was taken with the ships of the C2-C class. When converting to container ships, the ships were widened by almost three meters by side extensions and designed so that the containers could be stowed one above the other on deck and in the holds and cell guides could be used. This makes them one of the first representatives of this principle, which is still used today. Due to the lack of infrastructure in the ports at that time, in the form of container bridges or other suitable handling equipment , the ships were equipped with gantry cranes on deck .
The ships
C2-C class
Building name
Shipyard / construction number
IMO number
delivery
Client
Later names and whereabouts
Iberville
Gulf Shipbuilding, Chickasaw / 5
no
1943
United States War Shipping Administration, San Francisco
Sumter , Iberville , 1955 Gateway City , converted into a container ship in 1957, scrapped in Hong Kong from October 1978
Azalea City
Gulf Shipbuilding, Chickasaw / Aug.
5032163
July 1943
United States War Shipping Administration, San Francisco
Converted to a container ship in 1957, scrapped in Vigo on April 24, 1976
Bienville
Gulf Shipbuilding, Chickasaw / Sept.
no
June 1943
United States War Shipping Administration, San Francisco
-
Fairland
Gulf Shipbuilding, Chickasaw / 3
-
1943
United States War Shipping Administration, San Francisco
Converted to a container ship in 1957, scrapped in Hong Kong from December 1975
Raphael Semmes
Gulf Shipbuilding, Chickasaw / 4
5290399
1943
United States War Shipping Administration, San Francisco
-
Afoundria
Gulf Shipbuilding, Chickasaw / 7
no
1943
United States War Shipping Administration, San Francisco
Wayne , Afoundria , Beauregard
Data: Equasis, large tonnage
literature
Cudahy, Brian J .: Box boats . How container ships changed the world. Fordham University press, New York 2006, ISBN 0-8232-2568-2 .
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