Plan of the SS Ideal X |
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Career | |
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Name: | Ideal X, ex-Potrero Hills, ex-Capt. John D.P., ex-Elemir[1] |
Owner: | Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company[2] |
Port of registry: | United States |
Builder: | Rebuilt as container ship at Bethlehem Steel, Baltimore, MD.[1] |
Launched: | 30 December, 1944 |
Completed: | January 1945 |
Out of service: | Sold for scrapping, 1965.[3] |
Identification: | Official number: 247155[4] |
Fate: | Scrapped in Japan, 1967.[3] |
Notes: | Former T2 tanker. Originally built by Marinship Corp. in Sausalito, California as yard number 158 in 1945.[4] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | T2-SE-A1 |
Tonnage: | 16,460 GRT[4] |
Length: | 524 feet (160 m)[1] |
Beam: | 30 feet (9.1 m)[1] |
Height: | 68 feet (21 m)[1] |
Propulsion: | Elliot Company steam turbine, electric propulsion.[4] |
Capacity: | 58 33-foot containers 10,572 DWT[4] |
The Ideal X was originally constructed as a T2 tanker, similar to the Hat Creek shown here in August 1943. |
SS Ideal X was the first container ship. She was a converted World War II T-2 oil tanker which carried shipping containers. During her maiden voyage on April 26, 1956[5] the Ideal X carried 58 containers from Newark, New Jersey to Port of Houston, Texas where 58 trucks were waiting to be loaded with the containers.[6]
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History
The Ideal X began her career as an oil tanker. She was constructed by The Marinship Corporation in 1948, under the name Potrero Hills. She was rechristened the Ideal X in 1955, when purchased by Malcom McLean's Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company.[7][8][9]
In 1959 the vessel was acquired by Bulgarian owners, who rechristened her Elemir. The Elemir suffered extensive damage during heavy weather on 8 February, 1964 and was sold in turn to Japanese breakers. She was finally scrapped on 20 October, 1964 in Hirao, Japan.
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Cudahy, 2004, p. 31.
- ^ Cudahy, 2004, p. 30.
- ^ a b Cudahy, 2004, p. 312.
- ^ a b c d e Cudahy, 2004, p. 290.
- ^ "The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey - Press Release". http://www.panynj.gov/abouttheportauthority/PressCenter/PressReleases/PressRelease/index.php?id=812.
- ^ Levinson, 2006, p.1.
- ^ "Marinship". http://www.t2tanker.org/ships/marin.html.
- ^ "THe JoC: 175 Years of Change". [dead link]. http://web.archive.org/web/20070915093922/www.joc.com/history/p15.asp.
- ^ Cudahy, 2006.
References
- Cudahy, Brian J. (2006). Box boats: how container ships changed the world. New York: Fordham University Press. ISBN 0-8232-2568-2.
- Cudahy, Brian J. (September-October 2006) "The Containership Revolution: Malcom McLean's 1956 Innovation Goes Global" TR News (Washington, D.C.: Transportation Research Board of the National Academies) 246: 5–9 http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/trnews/trnews246.pdf. Retrieved 2011-03-01.
- Levinson, Marc (2006). The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. pp. 1. ISBN 0-691-12324-1.