SS Alpena a Lake freighter like the L6 ships built in 1942
Class overview
Name
Type L6 ship
Builders
American Ship Building Company and Great Lakes Engineering Works
Built
1943 (U.S. shipyards)
In service
1943 –
Completed
16
Active
1
Lost
0
General characteristics
Class and type
Maritimer class - L6
Tonnage
15,825 DWT
Length
620 ft 0 in (188.98 m) (design)
Beam
60 ft 0 in (18.29 m) (design)
Depth
35 ft 0 in (10.67 m) (design)
Installed power
2,500 shp triple expansion steam engine
Propulsion
Two coal-fired water tube boilers *(some coveted to diesel engine)
The Type L6 ship is a United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) designation for World War II as a Great Lakes dry break bulk cargo ship. The L-Type Great Lakes Dry Bulk Cargo Ships were built in 1943 to carry much-needed iron ore from the upper Great Lakes to the steel and iron production facilities on Lakes Erie and Ontario in support of the war effort. The ships have a 15,675 tonne deadweight tonnage. The L6 ships were built by two companies: American Ship Building Company, in the case of the type L6-S-A1 models, of which 6 were built; and Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ashtabula, Ohio/ Great Lakes Engineering Works, River Rouge, Michigan, in the case of the type L6-S-B1, which produced 10 ships. Steel supply needed for World War was great. To supply iron ore from Lake Superior to steel foundries, the United States Commission had a series of L6 Lakers ship built. The Maritime Commission ordered ten Great Lakes Bulk Carriers of the L6-S-B1 type. The L6-S-B1 was design with a 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engines. The L6-S-A1 used a lentz 4-cylinder compound engine. All L6 ships were coal burning and delivered between May and November 1943.[1] L6-S-B1 was built for the US Maritime Commission under USMC contract MCc-1834 in 1943 at the River Rouge yard. Each L6 ship cost $2.265 million. The first L6-S-B1 was the SS Adirondack/Richard J. Reiss, hull 290, keel was laid on March 9, 1942 and launched on September 19, 1942. The ships are often called the Class Lake Bulk Freighter now.[2]
^usmaritimecommission.de, Outboard Profiles of Maritime, Commission Vessels, The Laker Designs
^shipmodels.info, L6-S-B1 “Maritimer” Class Lake Bulk Freighter
TypeL6ship is a United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) designation for World War II as a Great Lakes dry break bulk cargo ship. The L-Type Great...
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yards were to be for the sole purpose of building only the emergency type of ships. While all the yards were to be built by private contractors and operated...
240 volts, depending on phase configuration. The L6 connector does not provide a neutral connection. L6-20 connectors provide a maximum of 20 amperes and...
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radio-controlled prototype for the destruction of the minefields. L6/40 ammunition carrier L6/40 command tank Breda-32 [it] Breda-40 [it] Breda-41 [it] ОМ-32...
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HMS L6 was a L-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during World War I. The boat survived the war and was sold for scrap in 1935. The L-class boats...
the Type 96. Production of the Type 88 stopped when the Type 96 became available, and the Type 96 was mass-produced in larger numbers than the Type 88...
oilfields, as well as by the British Commandos of the Royal Marines to carry a L6 Wombat anti-tank weapon. The Snow Trac was used successfully by NATO forces...
chassis L3 Lf flame tank, a variant of the L3/35 tankette L6 Lf flame tank, a variant of the L6/40 light tank Japanese Army Sōkō Sagyō Ki armoured engineer...
only 20 feet (6.1 m) off the bow, no damage was done to the ship or crew. The Zeppelin L6 followed by attacking with both bombs and machine gun fire....
station analog". International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research. 678: L6. arXiv:2309.15672. Bibcode:2023A&A...678L...6G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202347654...
criterion". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 439 (1): L6–L10. arXiv:1311.4744. Bibcode:2014MNRAS.439L...6G. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slt165...
weapons, equipment, vehicles and even ships), so there can be many unrelated pieces of equipment covered under a single Type number. This is a sortable table...
Kingdom; World War II) Carro Armato (tanks) Carro Leggero (popular name for the L6/40) Carro Pesante (popular name for the P40 and P26/40) Carro Veloce or ‘’fast...
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criterion". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 439: L6–L10. arXiv:1311.4744. Bibcode:2014MNRAS.439L...6G. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slt165...
(Battalion, Anti Tank) series of recoilless rifles, culminating in the 120 mm L6 WOMBAT. This was too large to be transported by infantry and was usually towed...
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