The Design 1001 ship (full name Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1001) was a wood-hulled cargo ship design approved for production by the United States Shipping Boards Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) in World War I. They were referred to as the "Ferris"-type after its designer, naval architect Theodore E. Ferris. Most ships were completed in 1918 or 1919. Many ships were completed as barges or as hulls.
Design Although the basic hull structure was wooden, the design made some use of steel reinforcement for added strength. There were two versions of the design, according to the local wood supplies available for construction: one for shipyards on the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, to be made from yellow pine, and the other for Pacific coast shipyards, to be made from Douglas fir. Except for some details of construction, the two versions were basically similar, with nearly identical specifications.
A standard Design 1001 ship measured in overall length, in length between perpendiculars, in beam, and in hull depth, with a load draft of . Tonnage was and . The standard crew complement was 42. Propulsion was normally provided by a single triple-expansion steam engine of , fed by two coal-fired boilers of either watertube or Scotch (firetube) type; the engine drove a single screw, giving a speed of . One builder, G. M. Standifer Construction Company, made several twin-screw Design 1001 ships with a pair of smaller triple-expansion engines having the same combined power. (The design also offered the option of using a geared steam turbine for propulsion, but no turbine-powered Design 1001 ships were built.)
Builders Builders of Design 1001 ships+ Builder Shipyard location Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama American Shipbuilding Company Brunswick, Georgia American Lumber Company Millville, Florida Barbare Brothers Tacoma, Washington Beaumont Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company Beaumont, Texas Benicia Shipbuilding Company Benicia, California R. J. Chandler & Company Wilmington, California Coast Shipbuilding Company Portland, Oregon Coos Bay Shipbuilding Company Marshfield, Oregon Cumberland Shipbuilding Company South Portland, Maine Dantzler Shipbuilding Company Moss Point, Mississippi Dierks Blodgett Shipbuilding Company Pascagoula, Mississippi Feeney & Bremner Shipbuilding Company Tillamook, Oregon Foundation Shipbuilding Company Newark, New Jersey Freeport Shipbuilding Company Freeport, Maine Fulton Shipbuilding Company Wilmington, California George A. Gilchrist Shipbuilding Company Thomaston, Maine Gildersleeve Shipbuilding Company Portland, Connecticut Grant Smith-Porter Shipbuilding Company Aberdeen, Washington and Portland, Oregon Groton Iron Works Noank, Connecticut Hammond Lumber Company Samoa, California Heldenfels Brothers Rockport, Texas Hodge Ship Company Moss Point, Mississippi Housatonic Shipbuilding Company Stratford, Connecticut Jahncke Shipbuilding Company Madisonville, Louisiana Johnson Shipyard Corporation Mariners Harbor, Staten Island Kelly Spear Company Bath, Maine Kingston Shipbuilding Company Kingston, New York Kruse & Banks North Bend, Oregon Lone Star Shipbuilding Company Beaumont, Texas Maryland Shipbuilding Company Dundalk, Maryland Meacham & Babcock Company Seattle, Washington Midland Bridge Shipbuilding Company Houston, Texas Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Company Quantico, Virginia Morey & Thomas Jacksonville, Florida J. W. Murdock Shipbuilding Company Jacksonville, Florida Murnan Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama McBride & Law Beaumont, Texas J. N. McCammon Shipyard Beaumont, Texas McEachern Shipbuilding Company Astoria, Oregon Newcomb Lifeboat Company / Hampton Shipbuilding & Marine Railway Company / C. H. Tenny Shipyard Hampton, Virginia Nilson & Kelez Shipbuilding Company Seattle, Washington North Carolina Shipbuilding Company Morehead City, North Carolina Patterson McDonald Shipbuilding Company Seattle, Washington Portland Ship Ceiling Company Portland, Maine Potomac Shipbuilding Company Quantico, Virginia G. F. Rodgers Shipbuilding Company Astoria, Oregon Rolph Shipbuilding Company Fairhaven, California Russell Shipbuilding Company Portland, Maine St. Helens Shipbuilding Company St. Helens, Oregon St. John's River Shipbuilding Company Jacksonville, Florida Sanderson & Porter Raymond, Washington Sandy Point Shipbuilding Company Sandy Point, Maine Seaborn Shipbuilding Company Tacoma, Washington Shattuck Shipyard Portsmouth, New Hampshire Ship Construction & Trading Company Stonington, Connecticut Sloan Shipyards Olympia, Washington H. Smith & Sons Curtis Bay, Maryland Sommarstrohm Brothers Shipbuilding Company Columbia City, Oregon Southern Shipbuilding & Drydock Company Orange, Texas G. M. Standifer Construction Company Portland, Oregon Tacoma Shipbuilding Company Tacoma, Washington Tampa Dock Company Tampa, Florida Traylor Shipbuilding Company, Cornwells Pennsylvania Union Bridge & Construction Company Morgan City, Louisiana United States Maritime Corporation Brunswick, Georgia Universal Shipbuilding Company Houston, Texas Wilson Shipbuilding Company Astoria, Oregon Winslow Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Company Winslow, Washington Wright Shipyard Tacoma, Washington York River Shipbuilding Company West Point, Virginia
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External links EFC Design 1001: Illustrations