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DuckDuckGo — Privacy, simplified. I just keyed:
US flag ships Liners or Tramps
Resulting in this link:
Is there a difference between a liner and tramp service..??
www.shippingandfreightresource.com
This information confirms my perception liners are on a fixed schedule while tramps may not be.
I did it because I was not aware that ships are designed specifically as tramps?
As this thread suggests?
I recall back in my Da Nang days, we tramps would be alongside at De Long finger piers for days if not weeks - depending upon cargo - while liners arrived at dawn one day and departed before sunset that day. I never sailed a liner.
One ship, a Fueled Vehicle Carrier, we delivered 1,000 brand new US Army Jeeps. At first they discharged day and night, but after a few deadly collisions after dark, the rest of the discharge was only during daylight. They had a whole bunch of US Army Personnel, who each would drive a jeep off the pier to a staging area, where they were lined up in tight rows. The whole bunch of drivers would be brought back to the pier in 6 x 6 US Army open trucks. There would be two groups running most days.
Army personnel and ships deck officers counted the jeeps as they were discharged. When we were all done discharging the Army tally was 999 while the ship's records said 1,000. The army agreed they must have missed one.
Wrong there were only 999. Since sailing over to "Nam a senior ships officer stole one. Everyone onboard knew it. He broke it down into wooden crates that he built, then stored them in a storeroom. Back at OAT - Oakland Army Terminal - a few days after we had arrived, the officer went up town and rented a U-Haul pickup truck. That he drove down to the ship's side and had the wooden crates lowered.
He drove out the gate of OAT straight to a trucking company where he shipped the crates via truck to his Long Island NY home. When he was home on vacation he spray painted EVERY thing pink, then assembled it in a Long Island Jeep 'style'. He never tried to register it. Instead he borrowed the plates off one of his cars, and he only drove it in the cool of the evening after dark and certainly not on the LIE.
After his Vacation when he was back on board sailing someone stole his Jeep and crashed it on the Long Island Expressway and ran off never to be found. There were all these tv and newspaper articles about this crashed mysterious pink jeep, that the US Army insists was somewhere in Nam, although USA seemed to have misplaced it.
All the ships I sailed offshore were WW II built. At wars end shipyards had contracts to build cargo ships that were completed. The ships were low mileage for 'Nam, since they only sailed from the shipyard to the closest Reserve Fleet then were properly laid up. They sailed only during wars Korea and 'Nam. As such with proper maintenance they had very reliable steam plants. I sailed like new cargo ships that had not done Korea.
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