Type C8-class ships are a type of Heavy Lift Barge Carrier. Type C8 ships were the 8th type of ship designed by the United States Maritime Commission (MARCOM) in the late 1960s. As done with the Type C1 ships and Type C2 ships , MARCOM circulated preliminary plans for comment. The design presented was not specific to any service or trade route . Type C8 ships measuring 876 feet (267 m) from stem to stern, and designed to make 16.2 knots (30.0 km/h; 18.6 mph).
7-496: SS Cape Flattery (AK-5070) was laid down on 10 February 1972, as SS Delta Norte a Maritime Administration type ( C9-S-81d ) hull under Maritime Administration contract (MA 259) at Avondale Industries Corp. , New Orleans , LA. She was launched, 19 May 1973 and delivered to the Maritime Administration, 12 September 1973, for operation by Delta Line. She was reacquired by the Maritime Administration for assignment to
14-552: Is a system for loading barges or ( lighters ) onto a large vessel for transport . At the destination, the barge are unloaded and the vessel is then free to move on to the next shipment. Barges and lighters are usually unpowered floating platforms for inland waterways that are separated from the open seas . Barge and lighters are typically towed or pushed around harbors , canals or rivers by tugboats . The carrier ships are also known as LASH carriers, barge carriers, kangaroo ships and lighter transport ships. Barges are load into
21-465: Is located at 37°44′19.8″N 122°22′18.9″W / 37.738833°N 122.371917°W / 37.738833; -122.371917 . In 1980 Avondale Industries built two 41,500 DWT Type C9-S-81f barge carriers: the SS Edward Rutledge (now SS Spirit and the SS Edward Rutledge (Now SS Reliance ). In 1974-75 Avondale Industries built nine 41,000 DWT C9-S-81d barge carriers, some used by
28-756: The US Navy and called seabee LASH, (Lighter aboard ship). In San Francisco, California is Lash Lighter Basin, located by Heron's Head Park in San Francisco Bay . The Lash Lighter Basin at Bayview–Hunters Point, San Francisco is a protected port that is used by C8-class ships for loading and unloading lighter-barges. Barges from the Stockton Deepwater Shipping Channel , Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel and Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta are taken to Lash Lighter Basin. The Lash Lighter Basin
35-605: The ready reserve fleet (RRF), 14 May 1987 and berthed at Beaumont , TX as part of the Maritime Administration Ready Reserve Fleet. When activated Cape Flattery is assigned to Military Sealift Command (MSC) as one of the Military Sealift Command's four LASH Ready Reserve Force Ships. Cape Flattery can be activated in 10 days C9-S-81d The Type C8 ships are a type of Heavy Lighter aboard ship . The lighter aboard ship or LASH
42-697: The first LASH ships the Acadia Forest and the Atlantic Forest. Avondale shipyard start construction in 1969 of the second LASH ships the C8-S-81b. The eleven C8-S-81b LASH ships were of identical design and built from 1970 to 1973. The 11 ships were used by two shipping lines Prudential Grace Line in New York and Pacific Far East Line in San Francisco. The price for each ship was $ 21.3 million. C8-S-82a were used by
49-425: The ship from the rear- stern of the ship. Two barge-lighters weighing up to 1,000 metric tons placed onto an underwater platform. The ship raises the platform up to the deck. On the deck are special rails to move the lighters down the length of the ship to their holding spot. The ship as a loading power to lift with a force of more than 2,000 Mp. In the late 1960s, shipbuilding engineer Jerome L. Goldman designed
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