The series of this ship class consisted of two units of an identical ship type built at the John Readhead & Sons shipyard in South Shields . The two units, named Sea Freightliner I and Sea Freightliner II, were first-generation container ships.
From 1968 the two ships served the Harwich-Zeebrugge container service of the British Railways Board. Later, both units also served on other services over the English Channel. The ships were operated until 1986, temporarily laid up on the River Blackwater in Essex on August 16, 1986 and finally sold in 1987 for demolition in Asia.
The Sea Freightliners were motor ships with aft superstructures and aft machinery. Cellguides had each of the four holds, each with two hatches, for the accommodation of 30-foot-long ISO containers, which were stowed in pairs one behind the other, five rows next to one another and three layers on top of one another. 110 30-foot units could be accommodated below deck, 38 on deck. Instead, 20 and 40-foot containers could be stowed on deck. The ships did not have their own loader gear. The drive consisted of two Mirrlees National six-cylinder four-stroke diesel engines of the type KLSSGMRG Series II. The docking and casting off maneuvers were supported by a bow thruster .
The ships
Ship name
Shipyard / construction no.
IMO number
Launching / delivery
Whereabouts
Sea Freightliner I.
John Readhead & Sons / 621
6803416
1968/1968
Canceled in Kaohsiung in 1987
Sea Freightliner II
John Readhead & Sons / 622
6812352
1968/1968
Canceled in Gadani Beach in 1987
literature
LV Jolmes (Ed.): Yearbook of the shipping industry . 6th episode. Hestra Verlag, Darmstadt 1967.
