The refrigerated ship type Pekari was designed in the mid-1960s by Deutsche Werft in Hamburg for the F. Laeisz shipping company and built in four units. In 1967/68 two slightly modified replicas for the Rob shipping company followed . M. Sloman with a slightly higher drive power (12,600 hp, 22.8 kn).
The design of the six units built was based on the Puná type built by the same shipyard for Laeisz . The refrigerated hold was around 300,000 cubic feet (approximately 8500 cubic meters). As with the previous buildings, the “fruit avenues” provided for monitoring the cargo on older fruit ships were replaced by a central, partially automated monitoring center. In contrast to the comparably large but slightly older ships Puna , Pongal and Pisang , the Pekari design was designed for a significantly higher speed, which, in addition to a more powerful main engine, required a revision of the hull lines. The lifeboats were also no longer erected on the rear deckhouse of the cargo booms , but directly amidships in the superstructure. All six units had noticeable chimneys. The four Laeisz units received larger than average but conventionally shaped chimneys. The Deutsche Werft carried out extensive series of tests to design the chimney shape of the two units for Sloman. The resulting chimney shape with the two guide profiles made the two Sloman units recognizable from afar and should ensure better discharge of the exhaust gas flow and less pollution of the aft areas of the ship. The results of the test series later also led to the unmistakable chimney design of the Hamburg cruise ship and the "chimneys with halo" of the Hamburg-Süd ships of those years.
The ships of the type sailed every several years under the German flag and have since been chartered by American and Scandinavian fruit companies. Rob. M. Sloman sold his two units to the Soviet Union in 1975 , where they were converted into fish trucks. They were the last reefer ships from this shipping company. As fish trucks, the two units remained in service until the 1990s and were then scrapped. The Laeisz shipping company kept its four ships until the end of the 1970s and then sold them to shipping companies in Hong Kong and Panama, who used them until the mid-1980s and then sold them for demolition.
The ships
Peccary- type
ships
Building name
Shipyard / construction number
IMO number
Client
Commissioning
Later names and whereabouts
peccary
German shipyard, Hamburg / 813
6616980
F. Laeisz, Hamburg
September 28, 1966
1979 United Reefer , scrapped in Vigo on April 18, 1985
Pica
Howaldtswerke, Hamburg / 995
6617001
F. Laeisz, Hamburg
October 8, 1966
1978 Grand Union , canceled at Aviles from December 21, 1985
oriole
Howaldtswerke, Hamburg / 996
6702674
F. Laeisz, Hamburg
January 21, 1967
1979 Grand Fair
persimmon
German shipyard, Hamburg / 818
6702260
F. Laeisz, Hamburg
February 28, 1967
1979 Grand United , scrapped in 1985
Sloman Alstertor
Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, Hamburg / 828
6802228
Rob. M. Sloman, Hamburg
20th February 1968
In 1975 converted to the Akhtarskiy Liman fish transporter , scrapped in Alang on September 7, 1994
Sloman Alsterpark
Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, Hamburg / 829
6815287
Rob. M. Sloman, Hamburg
September 12, 1968
In 1975 converted to the Yeyskiy Liman fish transporter , demolished in Bombay on June 14, 1995
Data:
literature
Arnold Kludas ; Witthohn, Ralf: The German reefer ships . 1st edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1981, ISBN 3-7822-0248-1 .
Prager, Hans Georg: F. Laeisz . from cargo sailors to bulk carriers. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1974, ISBN 3-7822-0096-9 .
Witthohn, Ralf: The new German merchant fleet . Freighters, tankers and containers. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1976, ISBN 3-7979-1870-4 .
