SS Fredericksburg (1958) explained

SS Fredericksburg was a single-hulled T5-S-12b oil tanker, originally named the Eagle Courier. The ship was built at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi as hull number 1030 and delivered on 10 October 1958.[1] The ship was scrapped in Chittagong, Bangladesh on 16 April 2004.[2] [3]

From delivery in 1958 until 1976, the ship was operated by Eagle Carriers. In 1976, she was bought by Keystone Shipping Company and renamed Fredericksburg. She continued to operate as a coastal tanker until 2004.

Fredericksburg was for some time the oldest tanker in the U.S. fleet, and its age showed. She was subject to a number of refittings and retrofittings, such as the 1983 forecastle overhaul.[4] Also, towards the end of her career, she had a number of safety problems. For example, on 10 June 1999 when loaded, after experiencing a steering failure, she "grounded under power at mile forty-three in the Columbia River." Fortunately, she "came ashore in an area of the river characterized by soft mud banks and suffered no damage."[5]

Some of Fredericksburgs problems were detailed in this 1 January 2003 article "Puget Sound's Rustbuckets:"

Finally, although "its OPA90 phase-out date is 8-Dec-05, Keystone Tankships will scrap the tanker Fredericksburg rather than incur the cost of its next dry-docking survey, which is due this month (2/6)."[6] In 2004, she was filled with grain in the port of Houston and sailed to Chittagong, Bangladesh where she was driven onto the beach and scrapped. The selling price was reportedly $425 per light displacement ton or 3.7 million U.S. dollars.[7] Fredericksburg was joined by her sister ship Chilbar at the scrapyard later that year.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula MS, Post-WWII Construction Record . coltoncompany.com . 25 February 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20061023012449/http://www.coltoncompany.com/shipbldg/ussbldrs/postwwii/shipyards/active/gulf/ingalls.htm . 23 October 2006 . dead .
  2. Web site: Maritime Administration Ship Inventory 1998 – Mothball Fleet . usmm.org . 25 February 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070102113311/http://www.usmm.org/marad.html . 2 January 2007 . dead .
  3. Web site: Tank Vessels Removed From U.S. Domestic Petroleum Trades, 1994–2005 . marad.dot.gov . 25 February 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060928142135/https://www.marad.dot.gov/MARAD_statistics/2005%20STATISTICS/tank%20vessels%20removed%201994-2005.pdf . 28 September 2006 .
  4. Web site: Puget Sound's Rustbuckets . seattleweekly.com . 25 February 2007 .
  5. Web site: Evaluation of the New Carissa Incident for Improvements to State, Federal, and International Law . oceanlaw.uoregon.edu . 25 February 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070217005437/http://oceanlaw.uoregon.edu/publications/new_carissa.html . 17 February 2007 . dead .
  6. Web site: Maritime News Headlines, March 2004 . coltoncompany.com . 25 February 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061023022602/http://www.coltoncompany.com/newsandcomment/headlines/headlines2004q1.htm . 23 October 2006 .
  7. Web site: S&P Monthly Report, March 2004 . cotzias.gr . 25 February 2007 .
  8. Web site: DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER, Number 270, Monday 27-12-2004 . ibiblio.org . 25 February 2007 .

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