EFC Design 1075 (Modified Ballin type): Notes & Illustrations
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Notes: Design 1075 was Supple & Ballin's Design 1011 modified for use by the G.M. Standifer shipyard in Vancouver, Wash. Ballin wrote in an article published in May 1918 that "I am now furnishing G.M. Standifer Construction Corp. with designs for similar steamers, with 44 feet molded beam, which I expect will have a deadweight capacity of 4575 tons." This was a one-foot increase in the molded beam over Design 1011, although the increase in actual capacity was not as much as Ballin had hoped for. Ballin later added another foot in beam in his Design 1102, developed for his own shipyard. Design 1075 was sometimes described as "with increased capacity and without steel reinforcements," but plans and the one available photo indicate that the steel reinforcements were retained. As of 4 August 1918 Ballin had had his men at the new Kiernan & Kern Shipbuilding Company, Portland, Ore. for more than a week working on the mould that the new firm would need to build four "composite" (steel and wood) ships to Ballin's design that the EFC had just ordered (Design 1075). These four ships were cancelled following the end of the war. Specifications: Design 1075 (Modified Ballin). Wood hull. Deadweight tons: 4500 designed, 4326 actual. Dimensions: 307.0' oa, 295.4' pp x 45.6' ext, 44.0' mld x 26' depth mld, 23.25' draft load. Propulsion: 1 screw, 1 triple expansion engine, 2 standard water tube boilers, 1400 IHP, 8 knots. Configuration: 2 decks, 4 holds, 4 hatches. |
| S.S. Bushong (Design 1075, EFC Hull 1121) on a "Congressional party trip" in 1918. When greatly enlarged the photo clearly shows a row of about twelve metal plates at the top of the side for most of the length of the ship riveted together at the ends as in Ballin's Design 1011. Photograph by the Kiser Photo Co. of Portland, Ore. (Oregon Historical Society Library, digitalcollections.ohs.org) (Click photo to enlarge) |
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G.M. Standifer Shipyards, Vancouver, Washington Photographed by Gordon Stuart on 17 January 1918 according to the copy in NARA, RG-165-WW-497A-003. In May 1917 Standifer, who owned a shipyard with four ways in North Portland, Oregon, received an order for ten Ferris Design 1001 ships (twin screw variant). He then expanded his facilities by building this six-way yard across the river in Vancouver, Washington. It was used to build the last six Ferris ships (seen here in frame), followed by all six of the Design 1075 ships. For a later view, still with the Ferris ships, see the Design 1001-TS (twin screw) page. Photo No. bb000296 (Kaiser Photo Co. collection) Source: Oregon Historical Society Library, digitalcollections.ohs.org |
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