Design 1015 ship

The Design 1015 ship (full name Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1015) was a steel-hulled cargo ship design approved for production by the United States Shipping Board's Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFT) during World War I.^[1] They were referred to as the "Moore & Scott"-type.^[1]

SS Alloway (1918)
Class overview
Name	EFT Design 1015
Built	1918–21 (USSB)
Planned	89
Completed	84 (1 delivered incomplete)
Cancelled	5
General characteristics
Type	Cargo ship
Tonnage	9,400 dwt
Length	402 ft 0 in (122.53 m)
Beam	53 ft 0 in (16.15 m)
Draft	32 ft 0 in (9.75 m)
Propulsion	Triple expansion engine or turbine, oil fuel[1]

They were mostly built at West Coast yards:^[1]

• Groton Iron Works, Groton, Connecticut, 6 ships, 3 cancelled, 3 completed
• Moore Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Oakland, California, 26 ships of which 8 were converted to reefers, no cancellations
• Pacific Coast Shipbuilding Company, Bay Point, California, 10 ships, no cancellations
• Seattle North Pacific Shipbuilding Company, Seattle, Washington, 10 ships, no cancellations
• G. M. Standifer Construction Company, Vancouver, Washington, 15 ships, no cancellations
• Union Construction Comapany, Oakland, California, 10 ships, no cancellations
• Virginia Shipbuilding Company, Alexandria, Virginia, 12 ships, 2 cancelled, 9 completed, 1 partially completed

References

1. McKellar, p. Part I, 480-484.

Bibliography

• McKellar, Norman L. "Steel Shipbuilding under the U. S. Shipping Board, 1917-1921, Part I, Contract Steel Ships" (PDF). Steel Shipbuilding under the U. S. Shipping Board, 1917-1921. ShipScribe. Retrieved 13 February 2021.

External links

• EFC Design 1015: Illustrations