The Design 1075 ship (full name Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1075) was a wood-hulled cargo ship design approved for production by the United States Shipping Board's Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) in World War I. The ships were referred to as a "modified Ballin type", as all were a modified version of the Design 1011 ship designed by naval architect Fred A. Ballin. They were built by the G. M. Standifer Construction Corporation in Vancouver, Washington.
Background
The Design 1075 ships used the same construction technique as Ballin's Design 1011 ships: to add strength, the wooden hull frames were covered with a skin of double-diagonal wooden planks and the hull's upper edge was reinforced with steel plates. Each Design 1075 ship measured in overall length, in length between perpendiculars, in beam, and in hull depth, with a load draft of . Tonnage was and . Propulsion was provided by a triple-expansion steam engine of , fed by two coal-fired water-tube boilers; this engine drove a single screw, giving a speed of . The crew complement was 44. See entry for Bushong.
Of the twelve ships ordered from G. M. Standifer, only six were completed; these were delivered to the EFC in 1919. Four other ships were ordered from the Kiernan & Kern Shipbuilding Company in Portland, Oregon but were canceled after the end of the war.
References
External links EFC Design 1075 (Modified Ballin type): Notes & Illustrations