This article refers to the container ships built in 1972. For the motor ship Selandia from 1912 see Selandia (ship) , for the motor ship Jutlandia from 1934 see Jutlandia .
The Selandia class consisted of the two container ships Selandia and Jutlandia . Both were built in 1972 for the Det Østasiatiske Kompagni (EAC) shipping company and were among the fastest cargo ships in the world when they were built. Both have been part of the US Military Sealift Command's fleet since 1994.
In 1971 the three Scandinavian shipping companies Det Østasiatiske Kompagni from Copenhagen, Svenska Ostasiatiska Kompaniet in Gothenburg and Wilh. Wilhelmsen founded the Scanservice Group in Oslo to offer a Europe-Far East container service with 15-day departures from the base port of Gothenburg. They ordered the four equally large and very fast container ships Selandia and Jutlandia (EAC), Nihon (SEA), and Toyama (Wilhelmsen). Shortly thereafter, the Dutch shipping company Nedlloyd joined the group with the two ships Nedlloyd Delft and Nedlloyd Dejima , whereupon the group was renamed ScanDutch . Together, the shipping companies of the Copenhagen-based ScanDutch Service Pool invested 250 million US dollars for this construction program of over 700,000 tdw, to which a further 35 million dollars came for the purchase of containers. In 1973 the French shipping company Messageries Maritimes was incorporated with its Korrigan and in 1977 the Malaysian shipping company Malaysian International Shipping Corporation (MISC) was added.
Construction and time of use
The Selandia and Jutlandia were ordered in 1971 by the Copenhagen shipping company Det Østasiatiske Kompagni (The East Asiatic Company, EAC) from the Burmeister & Wain shipyard in Copenhagen . After delivery began in September 1972, both were integrated into the ScanDutch Far East service, which they did not leave until 1994. In 1984 both ships in Ulsan at the Hyundai- Mipo shipyard were lengthened by around 15 meters.
In 1993/94 the EAC sold both ships to the US Military Sealift Command. Both ships were converted to de Sealift ships Gilliland and Gordon by 1996 . The conversion of the Selandia to the Gilliland (T-AKR-298) took place at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock shipyard, the Jutlandia became Gordon (T-AKR 296) at the Nassco shipyard in San Diego .
technology
The most outstanding detail of both ships was their propulsion system, which consisted of three Burmeister & Wain diesel engines of the type K84EF arranged on starboard, midship and port. Both side engines had nine cylinders and around 23,500 horsepower. The motors could be engaged or disengaged and each directly drove a fixed propeller with a diameter of 5.85 m. The middle engine had an output of 28,000 hp, which it delivered to a controllable pitch propeller with a diameter of 6.25 m. The 8-hatch ship was initially able to transport 2272 TEU and was characterized by connections for refrigerated containers. After the extension in 1984, the container capacity increased to around 2900 TEU.
literature
Yearbook of shipping 1974 , transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin, page 100
Hans Jürgen Witthöft: Container . The mega carriers are coming. Koehler, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-7822-0882-X .
