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Type C1-B Ships: MS American Leader, SS ALCOA Puritan (1941), SS Flying Enterprise, USS Alchiba (Aka-6), USS Alcyone (Aka-7), USS Algor

Type C1-B Ships: MS American Leader, SS ALCOA Puritan (1941), SS Flying Enterprise, USS Alchiba (Aka-6), USS Alcyone (Aka-7), USS Algor


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: MS American Leader, SS Alcoa Puritan (1941), SS Flying Enterprise, USS Alchiba (AKA-6), USS Alcyone (AKA-7), USS Algorab (AKA-8), USS Arcturus (AKA-1), USS Auriga (AK-98), USS Betelgeuse (AKA-11), USS Cape Johnson (AP-172), USS Comfort (AH-6), USS Hope (AH-7), USS Libra (AKA-12), USS Mercury (AK-42), USS Mercy (AH-8), USS Otus (ARG-20), USS Pollux (AKS-4). Excerpt: MS American Leader was a merchant cargo ship which entered service for the United States Lines in 1941. It was most noted for falling victim to the German auxiliary cruiser Michel during the Second World War. Her surviving crew members were taken as prisoners of war and collectively they endured three ship sinkings. American Leader was one of five vessels constructed by the Western Pipe and Steel Company from the US Maritime Commission's Type C1-B design. The detailed building plans were prepared for Western Pipe and Steel by New York naval architect George G. Sharp. In the 1930s American shipyards were making a transition from riveting to welding as the main building method and Western had been a pioneer in using these techniques since 1929. Welding reduced weight and steel usage because plate seams did not have to overlap as with riveting. New workers acquired welding skills more quickly than riveting techiques. Welding transformed shipbuilding by allowing assembly in modules which could be placed sideways or even upside down to facilitate construction. "Here there had been developed a welding technique which enables us to construct standard merchant ships with a speed unequaled in the history of merchant shipping..."- US President Franklin Roosevelt to UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill The C1-B cargo ships were constructed with flush full scantling type decks having a raked stem and cruiser stern. Two complete steel decks, the main and second decks, were fitted and a third deck was fitted below the second deck extending from the stem to the forward machinery space bulkhead. The double bottom extended from the forward collision bulkhead to the after collision bulkhead. Two 28-foot lifeboats, with a capacity of 60 persons each, were stowed under mechanical davits on the bridge deck. The hull was subdivided by seven transverse bulkheads, all watertight to the main deck. Five cargo holds were provided: three forward and two aft of the machinery space. Cargo was han


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156081204
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156081203
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: MS American Leader, SS ALCOA Puritan (1941), SS Flying Enterprise, USS Alchiba (Aka-6), USS Alcyone (Aka-7), USS Algor
  • Width: 189 mm


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