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W.L.R. Emmet
T2-SE-A1
100 th Launch of the "W.L.R. Emmet", on October 28th, 1944.
An amazing color photo taken by Grant Ridley, who was a photographer at Kaiser's Swan Island
shipyard in Portland Oregon, during WWII.
( Thanks to his son Richard Ridley )
100 th Launch of the "W.L.R. Emmet", on October 28th, 1944.
An amazing color photo taken by Grant Ridley, who was a photographer at Kaiser's Swan Island
shipyard in Portland Oregon, during WWII.
( Thanks to his son Richard Ridley )
Advertisement of the 100 th Launch of the "W.L.R. Emmet", on October 28th, 1944.
SALVO WITHOUT GUNS
lnto her element slips the SS W.I..R. Emmet, the 100th tanker launched at the Swan Island yard at Kaiser Co., Inc.
It's an event with the punch of a naval broadside, for these ships already have delivered billions of gallons of gasoline and oil - fuel to power our machines at war on land, sea and in the air.
The fact that all of these 100 tankers - and, indeed, a substantial proportion of all ships built for the U. S. Maritime Commission - are powered with boilers designed and built by Combustion Engineering is evidence of the important role which C-E has been privileged to play in creating our vast wartime merchant fleet - a fleet that after the war will constitute the world's greatest merchant marine.
C-E INSTALLATIONS span the entire range of steam generating requirements from small stoker-fired boilers of less then 50 horsepower to the largest power station units.
COMBUSTION ENGINEERING, New York.
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"Agios Georgios V", ex. "W.L.R. Emmet".
( Photo copyright A. Duncan )
W.L.R. EMMET, T2-SE-A1
History :
Built by The Kaiser Co., Swan Island Yard, Portland, Oregon.
Yardnumber 100. UMSC No. 1957. Off. nr. 246853.
Keel laid 16-09-1944. Launched 28-10-1944. Completed 22-11-1944. Gr. 10448 t., Net. 6285 t., Dw. 16613 t. L.o.a. 159,57 m., Br. 20,78 m., Dr. 8,99 m. Engine: 2 steam turbines, manufactured by General Electric Company, Lynn, Massachussetts. 7240 B.h.p., 5401 kW. Speed 15 knots. 26 Tanks.
History:
W.L.R. EMMET-1944 completed for United States War Shipping Administration, Portland, Oregon, USA.
AGIOS GEORGIOS V-1948 for N.G. Nicolaou, Piraeus, Greece.
Additional Reports:
Reported Agios Georgios V sold to shipbreakers in Italy. Arrived La Spezia 19 Jun. 1967 to be broken up, work began in Jul. 1967. [ By Cant. Di Portovenere S.p.A. ]
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