EFC Design 1114 (Barge, ex Design 1003): Notes & Illustrations
EFC Design 1114: Design 1003 hulls converted to 3500 ton barges.
| Cocopa (Design 1114, EFC Hull 435) at Wilmington, California, in the Design 1114 barge configuration used for three incomplete Hough Design 1003 ships (EFC Hulls 431, 435, and 454). In this conversion the large bridge house amidships was removed and replaced with a miniature bridge-like shelter for the barge crew and the empty machinery spaces were converted into another cargo hold. The long bridge island of the Hough design with its additional cargo capacity, was retained, as were its two pole masts. (NARA: RG-32-CV-7-5-49, as reproduced in Louis Hough, A Fleet To Be Forgotten: The Wooden Freighters of World War One, San Francisco Maritime Press, 2009, page 215.) |
| Notes: Five incomplete Design 1003 Hough wooden cargo ships were ordered in March 1919 to be converted to barges. Three were given the new designation Design 1114 and two remained Design 1003. Design 1114 is described in the photo captions on this page. Instead of being converted, the two Design 1003 units Alleben (EFC Hull 667) and Aroturus (Hull 668) were simply laid up incomplete with their bridge houses still in place. Part of the bridge house of Alleben may be seen in a photo on the page for Design 1113, and the less complete bridge house of Aroturus is visible in a photo in Louis Hough's book cited above, page 235. |
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S.S. Mesa (Design 1003, EFC Hull 454) The stern of the Hough cargo ship Mesa taking shape on outdoor building ways at the Coos Bay Shipbuilding Co. on 25 January 1918. Sister Balliett is on the left. Note the distinctive straight framing of Hough's design. Mesa was left behind when her sisters Coos Bay, Balliett, and Marshfield were towed to San Francisco in June-August 1918 to receive their machinery and she eventually became one of three EFC Design 1003 hulls converted to Design 1114 barges. The other two were Yainax (EFC Hull 431), built at another yard in Coos Bay, and Cocopa (EFC Hull 435), built near San Pedro. Yainax was probably delivered incomplete. Photo No. 165-WW-500D-003 Source: NARA: RG-165 |
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Barge Mesa (Design 1114, EFC Hull 454) A front view of the small shelter for the barge crew that replaced the original large bridge house amidships. A similar structure was placed aft on the poop of the Design 1001 schooner barge conversions and on the stern of the flush decked Design 1067 new construction schooner barges. The heavy wooden railing atop the bridge island was a feature of the original Hough design. Photo No. 32-CV-7-12-27 Source: NARA: RG-32, as reproduced in Hough, A Fleet to be Forgotten, page 215 |
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