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Illustrations for Requisitioned Ships, Part I:

Albina Engine to McDougall-Duluth

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Click on links below to view the corresponding notes and illustrations.

Use the link above to access numbered EFC contract designs.

Note: On 3 August 1917 the Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) requisitioned all steel ships over 2500 tons then under construction or on order in American yards. The illustrations linked below show most of the ship designs that were used to build requisitioned ships but were not carried over into the contract program. For the designs that were later given EFC design numbers and reused to build ships under EFC contracts see the pages for those design numbers. Many requistioned ships served in the Navy's Naval Overseas Transportation Service in 1918-1919 because they tended to be the first ships in the Shipping Board's programs to be completed.

Albina Engine & Machine Works, Portland, Ore. (McKellar Page 87-277b)
6 ships: Yard nos. 1-2 (2 ships), plus 4 ships as Design 1049.

American Ship Building Co., Cleveland (Page 87-278)
4 ships: All as Design 1020.

American Ship Building Co., Lorain (Page 87-278)
13 ships: Yard nos. 721-724 (4), plus 9 as Design 1020.

Ames Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Seattle (Page 87-279)
13 ships: Yard nos. 4-5 (2), plus 8 as Design 1013 and 3 as Design 1080.

Baltimore Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Baltimore (Page 87-279)
11 ships: Yard nos. 78, 81-84, 86-89, and 91-92

Bethlehem Steel Co., Maryland Plant, Sparrows Point. (Page 87-280)
14 ships: Yard nos. 160-1, 163, 165-166, 168, 172, and 174-75 (9), plus 5 as Design 1046. (Yard no. 162 cancelled)

Chicago Shipbuilding Co., Chicago (Page 87-281)
5 ships: All as Design 1020.

Columbia River Shipbuilding Co., Portland, Ore. (Page 87-281)
10 ships: All as Design 1013.

William A. Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia (Page 87-282)
9 ships: Yard nos. 434-5, 442-7, and 456.

Detroit Shipbuilding Co., Wyandotte, Mich. (Page 87-283)
12 ships: All as Designs 1093 (2) and 1020 (10).

J.F. Duthie & Co., Seattle, Wash. (Page 87-283)
12 ships: All as Design 1013.

Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Mass. (Page 87-284)
9 ships: Yard nos. 264-5, 267, 272-3, and 297-8, plus 2 as Design 1045.

Globe Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisc. (Page 87-284)
4 ships: All as Design 1020.

Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ashtabula, Ohio. (Page 87-285)
10 ships: All as Designs 1060 (2) and 1042 (8).

Great Lakes Engineering Works, River Rouge (Ecorse), Mich. (Page 87-285 and 88-379)
21 ships: Yard nos. 168-170 (3), plus 2 as Design 1060 and 16 as Design 1042.

Hanlon Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Oakland, Calif. (Page 88-379)
2 ships: Both as Design 1043.

Harlan & Hollingsworth Corp., Wilmington, Del. (Page 88-380)
10 ships: Yard nos. 442, 445-6, 449, and 453-58. (Yard nos. 450-51 cancelled.)

Long Beach Shipbuilding Co. (ex Craig S.B. Co.), Long Beach, Calif. (Page 88-380)
2 ships: Both as Design 1097.

Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, Wisc. (Page 88-380)
12 ships: Yard nos. 80-81 (2), plus 3 as Design 1042 and 7 as Design 1044.

McDougall-Duluth Co., Duluth, Minn. (Page 88-381)
9 ships: All as Design 1020.

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