ACADIA FOREST

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Acadia Forest

The Acadia Forest, Rotterdam 1969
Vessel data
Flag
Liberia
United States
Type of vessel
LASH ship
Owner
Central Gulf Lines, New Orleans
Building yard
Uraga Heavy Industries, Yokohama
Sumitomo Shipbuilding & Machinery Company, Yokosuka
Launching
April 3rd, 1969
Commissioning
September 27, 1969
Whereabouts
Scrapped in Alang in 1999
Ship dimensions and crew
Length
261,42 m (Lüa)
Width
32,59 m
Page height
18,29 m
Draft
max. 12,20 m
Survey
36,861 BRT, 20,635 NRT
Machinery
Machine
1 × Sumitomo-Sulzer 9RND90 two-stroke diesel engine
Machines-
performance
19,375 kW (26,343 PS)
Highest-
speed
19.1 kn (35 km/h)
Propeller
1 × fixed pitch propeller
Transport capacities
Load capacity
47,560 tdw
Volume
10.000 m³
Miscellaneous
Registration-
numbers
IMO 6916407
Notes
Number of lighters
83
The Acadia Forest was the world's first LASH ship.
History
In the 1960s, the American naval architect Jerome L. Goldman developed the LASH system and founded the Lighter Aboard Ship Corporation to market the patented system. The background of the development was the very long berthing times in ports at that time, which were to be shortened with the high handling capacity of the LASH system of over 1000 tons per hour. In 1968, the owner companies Moslash Shipping Company and Mosvold Shipping Company from Kristiansand ordered the first two LASH ships Acadia Forest and Atlantic Forest [1] from Uraga Heavy Industries in Yokohama. Uraga merged with Sumitomo in 1969, so that the two ships, each costing around ten million US dollars, were built at the Uraga shipyard of the Japanese Sumitomo Shipbuilding & Machinery Company. Deliveries took place in 1969 and 1970. The ships had five holds with 14 hatches. Up to 83 standardised lighters with a loading capacity of about 370 tons and additionally up to 10,000 tons of tank cargo in side and deep tanks could be carried. Cargo handling was carried out with a gantry crane with a lifting capacity of 465 tons, which could be moved on deck. About three to four barges were handled per hour.
Acadia Forest and Atlantic Forest were used in a long-term charter of the shipping company Central Gulf Lines from New Orleans on the route between New Orleans and Rotterdam. Three sets of LASH barges were used for each vessel, one set of which lay in New Orleans and one set in Rotterdam for loading, while the third set of barges was transported on the vessel. After Bremerhaven was also called at from September 1970, Central Gulf Lines expanded its LASH services in the mid-1970s with further vessels of the MARAD Design C9-S-81d, whereupon Acadia Forest and Atlantic Forest also operated on further services from the US Gulf to the Red Sea and to the Far East.
In 1977 the vessels were transferred to Special Carriers Incorporated and Lash Carrier Incorporated in Monrovia and continued to operate under the Liberia flag. Both ships were transferred several times within Liberia in the following years. In 1992 the US-American shipping company Waterman Steamship Corporation took over Atlantic Forest for service in Military Sealift Command, where she was deployed as Jeb Stuart (AK-9204). On 12 October 1999 the Acadia Forest arrived in Alang for demolition, almost two years later, on 7 July 2001 the Jeb Stuart finally arrived in Alang for scrapping.