Shaw, Savill & Albion C-Class

Shaw, Savill & Albion "C" class

Ship data associated ships 5 Ship type Cargo motor ship Shipping company Shaw, Savill & Albion draft Harland & Wolff, Belfast Shipyard Harland & Wolff, Belfast Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker Swan Hunter, Wallsend Cammell Laird, Birkenhead Construction period 1951 to 1956 Cruising areas Worldwide trip

Ship dimensions and crew length 156.06 m ( Lüa ) 146.61 m ( Lpp ) width 21.03 m measurement approx. 11,000 GRT

Machine system machine 2 × Harland-B&W two-stroke diesel engines Machine performance 14,300 hp (10,518 kW) Top speed 17.0 kn (31 km / h) propeller 2 × fixed propellers

Transport capacities Load capacity 11,400 dw

The "C" class of the British shipping company Shaw, Savill & Albion was a series of liner freighters . The ship class consisted of five motor ships of the same type of ship that were built by four different shipyards .

technology

The basic design of the ships was a further development of the Delphic class built from 1948/49 . The design with superstructures located amidships and the conventional loading gear consisting of 14 7-tonne cargo booms, six 5-tonne light cargo booms, four 12-tonne cargo booms and one 70-tonne heavy-lift boom was specially designed for the return from Europe via New Zealand and the Caribbean to Europe's leading service of the shipping company has been developed. The ships, around 156 meters long and 21 meters wide on frames, had six cargo holds with two or three tween decks and a large cooling capacity. Cargo hold 1 and 6 were completely designed for conventional dry cargo, as well as the uppermost intermediate deck space of cargo holds 2 and 4. The lower space and the two lower intermediate decks of cargo space 2, the entire cargo space 3, which was directly under the deckhouse, and the lower space and the the two lower tween decks of hold 5 were designed as a refrigerated and freezer hold. There were also separate compartments for special loads. The two built-in Harland-B&W six-cylinder opposed piston two-stroke main engines each developed 7150 hp and allowed a speed of about 17 knots . They were designed to operate on heavy fuel oil with a viscosity of up to 1500 redwood seconds at 100 Fahrenheit.

The ships (selection)

Shaw, Savill & Albion "C" class
Building name	Shipyard / construction number	IMO number	delivery	Later names and whereabouts
Cedric	Harland & Wolff / 1445	5066827	1952	1976 Sea Condor , demolition in Kaohsiung from September 20, 1976 at Ton Tai Steel Works
Cymric	Harland & Wolff / 1453	5083368	1953	1973 Durango , demolition in Kaohsiung from October 18, 1975 at Li Chong Steel & Iron Works
Canopic	Vickers-Armstrongs / 151	5060184	1954	1975 Capetan Nicolas , demolished in Aliaga from September 27, 1986 at Gumuscubuk Gemi Sokum Ticaret
Cretic	Swan Hunter / 1845	5082053	1955	1973 Drina , 1976 United Vigor , demolished in Kaohsiung from December 23, 1978 (arrival) January 24, 1979 at Nan Long Steel & Iron Company
Carnatic	Cammell Laird / 1269	5064623	1956	1973 Darro , 1979 Litska K , 1979 Dimitra , demolition in Kaohsiung from June 25, 1979 at the Yung Steel Wire Company
Data: Lloyd's Register of Shipping

literature

• The Refrigerated Cargo Liner "Canopic" - Third of Series of 11,500-ton Twin-screw Ships for Shaw Savill Line. Vickers-built vessel with Harland-B. and W. Machinery of 14,300 shp In: The Motor Ship . Vol. 35, No. 419 . Temple Press, London February 1955, pp. 490-495 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Shipbuilding Centers. In: The Shipbuilder and Marine Engine-Builders . Vol. 59, No. 526 . Shipbuilder Press, Newcastle-on-Tyne June 1952, pp. 430-438 .
2. ↑ Shaw, Savill & Albion # 4 at Merchantnavyofficers (English)
3. ↑ Shaw, Savill & Albion # 5 at Merchantnavyofficers (English)
4. ↑ Lloyd's Register of Shipping, London (various years)