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Requisitioned: 6 ships: Yard nos. 1-2 (2), plus 4 as Design 1049.
The requisitioned precursors to the EFC designs are documented with those designs (q.v.).


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Two ships, each 3300 tons dwt., building for A/S D/S. A.H. Matthiassen.

S.S. Dorothy Philips, ex Point Loma (Yard no. 1)

At Kodiak, Alaska, on 27 February 1943. This was one of the pair of requisitioned Norwegian 3300-ton ships that preceded the four Danish 3800-ton ships that were precursors to Design 1049. She was delivered on 7 March 1918 and was probably refitted with the four tall masts shown here as a lumber carrier when owned by a lumber company in the 1920s or 1930s. Note the lumber in the wells with boats on top forward. Point Loma had been delivered to the EFC on 7 March 1918, followed by Point Arena on 30 May 1918.

Photo No. 80-G-79616
Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-80-G)
  S.S. Dorothy Philips, ex Point Loma