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Help and Advice / Re: Need USCG O.N. for Seatrain ships

« on: January 03, 2015, 02:38:46 AM »

Thanks very much for your kind offer, David. I'm good for the moment, but I will keep you in mind if I hit another road block.
Regards, Jim.

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Help and Advice / Re: Need USCG O.N. for Seatrain ships

« on: January 02, 2015, 10:02:46 PM »

Thanks so much, Kyle, that's exactly what I needed.
Regards - Jim

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Help and Advice / Need USCG O.N. for Seatrain ships

« on: January 02, 2015, 08:58:42 PM »

Looking for the six-digit USCG O.N. for two Seatrain container ship conversions. Cant find them at the USCG or MARAD sites. If anyone has a copy of Greg Williams' World War II U.S. Navy Vessels in Private Hands they should be listed in the Named Craft chapter.

1) Transhawaii IMO 6904820 - should be listed on p.133 under USS General J. H. McRae (AP-149).

2) Transidaho IMO 6904856 - should be listed on p.137 under USS General W. F. Hase (AP-146).

Many thanks in advance if someone could look them up for me.
Regards, Jim Eager (jeager)

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Shipping News and information / Re: Munck travelling deck cranes

« on: March 01, 2012, 06:56:26 PM »

Munck was just one vendor of traveling gantry cranes, and Johnson Line just one of several ship lines to put them on their early container ships. The very first Sea-Land cellular conversions of 1957 had traveling gantries for self loading/unloading, as did most Sea-Land conversions through 1965 and even some lengthened in 1969. The very first new-built cellular ship, the KOORINGA, had gantries. Other lines that used gantries on at least some of their early container ships included APL, American Export-Isbrandtsen, Grace, Hamburg Sud's Columbus Line, K-Line/Pheonix Container Line/OOCL (same three ships), and British Yukon Navigation.

Other lines used a pivoting crane mounted on a traveling gantry, including Ben Line, DAL, Maersk, Nedlloyd, Woermann, and the CAROL Line ships of Hapag-Lloyd, Harrison Line, CGM, and KNSM.