the SS PRESIDENT FILLMORE on her maiden voyage

Pat Thompson · Aug 11, 2010

Greetings,

Thats a bonny and businesslike looking ship.

According to Miramar she was completed 31/5/68 by Litton Ingalls, Pascagoula East, jumboised in 1972 and converted to containers.

87 MASON LYKES -
93 PRESIDENT FILLMORE -
93 FILLMORE
Disposal Data: BU Alang 28.1.94

cmakin · Aug 11, 2010

That is another SeaMonster, er Sea Master, isn't it?

Trader · Aug 11, 2010

Nice photo Deepdraft. Looks heavy on deck.

deepdraft1 · Aug 11, 2010

yep cmakin, it's a MARAD designation C4-S-69A "Sea Master" class cargo ship. AKA to those of us that sailed on them, the "Sea Monster" class..

deepdraft1 · Aug 13, 2010

whats the little crane like things on top nos 2 and 4 goalposts ???

I'm not quite sure but they look like some kind of a crane boom (like you'd see on a Hagglund type crane). Just guessing, that they maybe were used married up with the jumbo for 'heavy lifts'..

John Timmins · Jan 23, 2014

The Sea Monsters...aren't they the ones with only ONE boiler ? When it got salted up you had a small gas turbine in the shaft alley that coupled into the propeller shaft ? And you could only go 6 knots.....astern ?

Please tell me all this is wrong....

the SS PRESIDENT FILLMORE on her maiden voyage

Pat Thompson

cmakin

Trader

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John Timmins

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