Sea-Land T2 class

**Sea-Land T2 class**
	Side view of the Ideal X by Karsten Kunibert Krüger-Kopiske
Ship data
Ship type	Container Ship
Shipping company	Sea-Land Service, New York
Construction period	1944 to 1945
Units built	4th
Ship dimensions and crew
length	159.60 (153.62) m ( Lüa ) 153.30 (?) M ( Lpp )
width	20.70 m
measurement	approx. 10,500 GRT
Machine system
machine	1 × steam turbine on electric motor
Top ; speed	15.0 kn (28 km / h)
propeller	1 × fixed propeller
Transport capacities
Load capacity	approx. 16,500 dw
Container	58 (each 33 feet) TEU
Others
Classifications	American Bureau of Shipping

The T2 class was one of four container ships existing class of the American shipping company Sea-Land Service . The ships were built as conversions of former T2 tankers and are considered to be early pioneers of container shipping.

The ships

T2 class
Building name	Shipyard / construction number	IMO number	delivery	Client	Later names and whereabouts
Ideal X	Marinship, Sausalito / 68	no	1945	-	1948 Capt. John DP , 1951 Potrero Hills , 1955 conversion to container ship Ideal X , 1959 Elemir , scrapped in Hirao from October 20, 1964
Whittier Hills	Marinship, Sausalito / 71	no	February 1945	-	1955 conversion to the Almena container ship, container deck removed in 1960, scrapped in Hirao from October 1964
Black River	ADDSCO, Mobile / 353	5283255	October 1945	-	1947 Ponca City , 1948 Marine Leader , 1956 Maxton , 1962 Conversion to the bulk carrier Potomac , scrapped in Gadani Beach on November 3, 1982
Coalinga Hills	Marinship, Sausalito / 61	no	November 1944	United States War Shipping Administration, San Francisco	Used as a container ship in Sea-Land charter from 1956 to 1958, stranded near Tanega Shima on January 23, 1963 on a voyage from Iran to Kudamatsu, and arrived in Hong Kong on March 7, 1963 for scrapping at the Hong Kong Chiap Hua Manufactory Company, which began on March 23 with the demolition
Data: Equasis, large tonnage

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