World War II
American Liberty Ships
EC2-S-C1 type
A Study in Blueprints
Volume I
by Duane Borchers, Sr.
BK-050
$60.00
(Foreign:
$90.00)(11"x17"
soft cover book of engineering
drawings, 146
pages)
Ships of class: Patrick Henry, Charles
Carroll, Francis Scott Key, Roger
B. Taney, Richard Henry
Lee, John Randolph, George Calvert, American
Mariner, (AGM-12), Christopher
Newport, Carter
Braxton, Samuel Chase, George Wythe, Benjamin Harrison,
Francis L. Lee, Thomas Stone, Richard Bland,
George Calvert (II), Thomas Nelson, John
Witherspoon, Robert Treat Paine, St. Olaf, Jasmine,
Esek Hopkins, Peter Minuit, Alexander Macomb, Henry
St. G. Tucker, Eleazar Wheelock, Thomas Ruffin,
William Johnson, Richard Bassett, Oliver Ellsworth,
Theodore Foster, James
Gunn, John Henry, Samuel
Johnston, William Mac Lay, William Patterson,
Luther Martin, William Wirt, Reverdy Johnson,
John H. B.
Latrobe, Richard H. Alvey, John P.
Poe, Bernard Carter, John
Carter Rose, Andrew Hamilton, Benjamin Chew,
William
Tilghman, Jared Ingersoll, William
Rawle, Horace Binney, John
Sergeant, Thomas McKean, William Paca, Benjamin Rush, Joseph Stanton,
John Walker, Pierce Butler, Tristram Dalton, Jonathan Elmer,
William
Few, William
Grayson, John Mitchell, John W. Brown,
James M. Wayne, William B. Woods, Joseph R.
Lamar, Thomas Todd, Robert Trimble, John
Catron, John McKinley, John A.
Campbell, John M. Harlan, Howell
E. Jackson, Edward D. White, Horace
H. Lurton, Henry W. Grady, James W. Wetmore, Frederick Bartholdi,
John B. Gordon, Edward
P. Alexander, Robert Battey, Patrick H. Morrissey,
Samdee, Joe C. S. Blackburn, John
B. Lennon, George G. Crawford, David B. Johnson,
Howard
E. Coffin, R. Ney McNeely, (YAG-1955), Benjamin H. Hill,
Joseph
M. Terrell, Robert R. Livingston, Samalness,
Isaac
Shelby, Samfairy, Samfoyle, Samfinn,
Samvigna, Samselbu, Samleyte, Samaustral,
Samingoy, Samlorian, Samoland, Donald W. Bain,
Augustine
B. McManus, James B. Duke, W.
P. Few, Alexander S. Clay, F. Southall Farrar,
James W. Cannon, Frank Park, Eugene T. Chamberlain,
Thomas
B. King, R. Walton Moore, Niels Poulson, Arthur J. Tyrer,
Cassius Hudson, Lunsford Richardson, Johan
Printz, Charles S. Haight, R. J. Reynolds, Duncan L. Clinch,
Abigail Gibbons, Charles W.
Stiles, Murray M. Blum, Laura Bridgman, Richard
Randall, Edward R. Squibb, John H.
Hammond, Albert K. Smiley, Nelson Morris, George W. Norris, Arthur M. Hulbert,
M. E.
Comerford, Felix Riesenberg, Robert J. Banks,
Vadso, William F. Jerman, William Cox,
George R. Poole, Harold O. Wilson, James Bennett Moore, Halton R. Carey,
Harold Dossett, Patrick S. Mahony, Richard A. Van Pelt,
Belgian Equality, Charles C.
Randleman, Roy James Cole and Patrick B.
Whalen.
List of Blueprints
|
Title |
Vessel &Shipyard |
Date of Document |
Page |
|
Outboard profile, |
EC2-S-C1 |
Aug. 6, 1942 |
21-22 |
|
Body, |
do. |
April 28, 1941 |
23 |
|
Outboard profile, |
EC2-S-C1 |
Sept. 12, 1941 |
24-25 |
|
Body, |
do. |
Aug. 21, 1942 |
26 |
|
Inboard profile & holds, |
EC2-S-C1 |
Aug. 4, 1942 |
27-28 |
|
General arrg't, 2nd deck, upper deck &superstructure, |
do. |
Aug. 6, 1942 |
29-30 |
|
General arrg't, 2nd deck, upper deck &superstructure, |
EC2-S-C1 |
|
31-32 |
|
Docking plan, |
EC2-S-C1 |
June 9, 1941 |
33-34 |
|
Shell expansion, bow to frame 80, |
do. |
Feb. 28, 1942 |
35-36 |
|
Shell expansion, frame 80 to stern, |
do. |
- |
37-38 |
|
Mooring arrangement, |
do. |
April 28, 1941 |
39-40 |
|
Rigging, arrangement, |
do. |
July 9, 1941 |
41-43 |
|
Upper deck plating, frame 83 to stern, |
do. |
April 18, 1941 |
44-45 |
|
Hold ceiling battens & grain board |
do. |
April 8, 1941 |
46-47 |
|
Grain cargo plan, |
do. |
Dec. 6, 1941 |
48-49 |
|
Cargo hatch battens & covers on upper deck, |
do. |
June 12, 1941 |
50-51 |
|
Accommadiation on plan, mid ship & upper deck house, upper deck, |
EC2-S-C1 |
April 24, 1941 |
52-53 |
|
Accommodiation on plan, boat & bridge deck houses, |
do. |
April 21, 1941 |
54-55 |
|
Rail & awning stanchions & awning arrangement, |
do. |
May 5, 1941 |
56-57 |
|
Stem, |
EC2-S-C1 |
Jan. 12, 1941 |
58-59 |
|
Stern frame, |
do. |
do. |
60 |
|
Lift tine eye for propeller & rudder, |
do. |
Jan. 6, 1941 |
61 |
|
Rudder & stock, |
do. |
April 16, 1941 |
62-63 |
|
Details of propeller & fairwater, |
EC2-S-C1 |
April 8, 1941 |
64 |
|
Capacity plan, |
EC2-S-C1 |
Jan. 14, 1941 |
65-66 |
|
Capacity plan, |
EC2-S-C1 |
- |
67-68 |
|
Capacity plan, |
EC2-S-C1 |
July 14, 1941 |
69-70 |
|
Builders nameplate, SS Star of Oregon |
EC2-S-C1 |
Sept. 8, 1941 |
71 |
|
Ship's name & registry draft marks, ABS marks, |
do. |
Aug. 16, 1941 |
72-73 |
|
Location & details of smoke can platforms & tripping release, |
do. |
Aug. 12, 1941 |
74-75 |
|
Screens, air scoops & drip pans for 12" airport, |
do. |
July 12, 1941 |
76-77 |
|
Bow davit, |
do. |
July 19, 1941 |
78-79 |
|
Stowage of ring life buoys, |
do. |
July 12, 1941 |
80-81 |
|
Steel ladders, inclined, |
do. |
June 12, 1941 |
82-84 |
|
Vertical ladders & grab rungs, |
do. |
- |
85-88 |
|
Accommadiation ladder, arrangement &details, |
do. |
Sept. 2, 1941 |
89-90 |
|
Arrangement & details of escape ladder in engine & fire rooms, |
do. |
- |
91-94 |
|
Masts & mast fittings, |
do. |
Jan. 21, 1941 |
95-98 |
|
Masts, stl. Booms, sketches for ordering, |
do. |
June 12, 1941 |
99-101 |
|
5 ton cargo booms (wood) assembly & details, |
do. |
July 2, 1941 |
102 |
|
Cargo boom, arrangement & details, |
do. |
- |
103-105 |
|
Sounding boom, arrangement & details, |
do. |
Aug. 18, 1941 |
106-107 |
|
50 ton boom, mast details at frame 39, |
do. |
Jan. 22, 1942 |
108-109 |
|
Additional portable topmast on mast at frame 39, |
do. |
March 1, 1942 |
110-111 |
|
Modification & addition of portable topmast to antenna mast at frame 89, |
EC2-S-C1 |
March 6, 1944 |
112-114 |
|
Rigging arrangement to 50 ton boom, |
do. |
- |
115-117 |
|
Ships bells, |
do. |
Aug. 16, 1941 |
118 |
|
Location & details of position busy & fog buoy wire reel, |
do. |
- |
119-120 |
|
House pipes & anchor handling, arrangement & details, |
do. |
July 2, 1941 |
121-122 |
|
20 m/m machine gun pillbox plans |
do. |
- |
123-130 |
|
Additional 20 m/m machine gun nests, |
EC2-S-C1 |
July 30, 1943 |
131-132 |
|
Arrangement of machinery, cross sections, |
do. |
Sept. 9, 1942 |
133-134 |
|
Arrangement of machinery, plan views & elevation, |
do. |
May 8, 1941 |
135-137 |
|
Arrangement & detail of ventilation for engine & boiler rooms, |
do. |
July 24, 1941 |
138-140 |
|
Ventilation, general arrangement, |
do. |
June 17, 1942 |
141-142 |
|
Engine room & galley skylight & coal hatch, |
do. |
Mar. 19, 1941 |
143-144 |
|
Arrangement of galley, |
do. |
May 29, 1941 |
145-146 |
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