SS Cape Farewell (AK-5073)
The Delta Mar with later named Cape Farewell
American Bureau of Shipping
74 and 89
The LASH ships of MARAD Design C9 -S- 81d were built from 1971 to 1975 in nine units at the Shipyard Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans.
History
In the 1960s, the American naval architect Jerome L. Goldman developed the LASH system and founded to market the patented system, the Lighter Aboard Ship Corporation. Background of the development were the usual very long time its marina mooring times should be shortened with the high handling capacity of the LASH system of over 1000 tons per hour. Even before the commissioning of the first LASH ships Acadia Forest and Atlantic Forest in the years 1969 and 1970 ordered more U.S. shipping companies a series of eleven LASH Schifen at the Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans. This began in 1970 with the construction of the series. The first three 28.5 million U.S. dollars each expensive ships of the type were delivered in 1973 to the shipping company Delta Line from New Orleans, which she operated as Delta -Mar - class. 1974 was followed by three identical ships Waterman Steamship Corporation in the Mobile, whose unit price was slightly cheaper, each with 27.9 million U.S. dollars. Then the Avondale shipyard 1974/75 finally delivered three units to which is also based in New Orleans Central Gulf Lines, which had a per unit even lower construction price with each 27.5 million U.S. dollars.
Two of the ships are still in the Ready Reserve Force, which is maintained by the United States Maritime Administration ( MARAD ). They are two of 48 RRF ships in the " Sealift Program Office ."
Technical data and characteristics
The seven cargo holds of ships, four of them in front of the engine room are divided into a total of 18 cells for stowage of barges and containers. In order to achieve an optimal cargo volume, the Cabins are located far forward and the engine rooms of ships as far aft as possible technically. The takeover of Light takes place at the rear by a 460- Megapond portal crane. The loading and unloading with 20 - foot container, the so-called TEUs ( Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit ) - and 40 -foot containers FEU ( Forty- foot Equivalent Unit), a 30 - Megapond portal crane, both on the port - as well as take on the starboard side. In the double- hull shell, longitudinal bulkhead between cargo hold and the actual outer skin are water, fuel and oil tanks. Ships are powered by a two -shaft transmission turbine with an output of 23 536 kW. The on-board electrical power supply is provided by each a 2000 kW turbine or a diesel generator. The living quarters for the crew are in the main - 1st and 2nd deck of the superstructure. The catering crew is delivered in special 10 -foot containers and taken over by a separate jib crane on the starboard side.