Sea-Land D-6 class

Sea-Land D-6 class

Ship data Ship type Container Ship Shipping company Sea-Land Corporation Shipyard Mitsubishi, Kobe Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Schlieker-Werft, Hamburg

Ship dimensions and crew length 201.78 m ( Lüa ) width 23.77 m Draft Max. 11.89 m measurement 17,618 GRT

Machine system machine 1 × Mitsubishi-Sulzer 6RND90 diesel engine Machine performance 17,400 hp (12,798 kW) Service speed 18.5 kn (34 km / h) propeller 1

Transport capacities Load capacity 14,130 dwt Container 1023 TEU

Others

The D-6 class was a class of four container ships owned by the US shipping company Sea-Land Corporation , whose midships were originally part of four older Sea-Land ships. Sea-Land commissioned the ships between 1977. The container ships of the D-6 class were the first motor ships of the Sea-Land shipping company when they were built.

history

At the beginning of the 1960s, the shipping company Sea-Land had existing T3 tankers converted into T3 class container ships. The central aisles required for this were built in Hamburg in 1962/63 by the Schlieker shipyard and Blohm & Voss . After the propulsion systems of the standard tankers built during World War II had reached the end of their service life, they were sent to the Mitsubishi shipyard in Kobe in 1977, which built new container ships using the older central aisles. The fore and aft hulls were separated and later scrapped, the remaining midships received new fore and aft hulls from Mitsubishi for 52.2 million US dollars and were put back into service as the D-6 class.

The propulsion system consisted of a Mitsubishi-Sulzer 6RND90 diesel engine, which helped the ships classified as new to a speed of 18.5 knots. The newbuildings contained 1023 TEU in cell guides .

Due to the construction of the central aisles in the early 1960s, the remarkable fact arose at the end of the operating period that they were probably among the last container ships whose hulls were still partly riveted .

Overview

Four D-6 ships were built.

D-6 class
Building name	Shipyard / building number central nave	IMO number	Commissioning	Renaming	Whereabouts
Sea-Land Leader	Mitsubishi / 6451 Elizabethport	7714325	1977	1988 → Sea Leader , 2008 → MSC Leader	Cancellation from February 16, 2010
Sea-Land Pioneer	Mitsubishi / 6452 Los Angeles	7714337	1978	1989 → Sea Pioneer , 2008 → MSC Pioneer	Demolition from February 18, 2010 in Alang
Sea-Land Pacer	Mitsubishi / 6453 San Juan	7714349	1978	2006 → Pacer , 2007 → MSC Baleares , 2009 → Baleares	Cancellation from June 2009
Sea-Land Adventurer	Mitsubishi / 6454 San Francisco	7714351	1978	1999 → Sea Adventure 1999 → Maersk Constantza 2002 → Sea Adventure 2002 → Maersk Koper , 2008 → MSC Koper	Cancellation from February 2, 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Sea-Land Adventurer at containership-info (English)

Web links

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