This thread began in another, about old Aleutian freighters. The OP (an expert if ever there was one) noted about the fate of the original Aleutian freighters of the 1980s: QUOTE][I]Slowly those old rides are disappearing into razor blades[/I]…[/QUOTE] I might add: about the only way to dispose of…

Some of the Army FS had two cargo holds. This is a photo the cc posted on another thread. It’s the Reluctant from the movie Mr Roberts, C Cap says was the old USS HEWELL (AKL-14) [image] Here is another photo this one looks like only one hold. From the site Eagle Speak . [image]

How about the old ALYESKA? I made the delivery from Houston to San Diego in '79.(?)Had a refer and welding crew on board all the way around. A safety man would have had an apoplexy from day one. “Interesting” trip to say the least. I finally decided to get off in San Diego instead of Dutch.

If I remember right Alyeska was a Knot Ship, smaller kid-brother to the Liberty ships. Made to carry cargoes for the the Army and Navy. Owned by a military department called MST, perhaps forerunner of MSC. But someone may correct me.

[QUOTE=freighterman;178937]If I remember right Alyeska was a Knot Ship, smaller kid-brother to the Liberty ships. Made to carry cargoes for the the Army and Navy. Owned by a military department called MST, perhaps forerunner of MSC. But someone may correct me.[/QUOTE] was the ALYESKA really the AL-…

[QUOTE=freighterman;178937]If I remember right Alyeska was a Knot Ship, smaller kid-brother to the Liberty ships. Made to carry cargoes for the the Army and Navy. Owned by a military department called MST, perhaps forerunner of MSC. But someone may correct me.[/QUOTE] It was a YO or YOG, I don’t re…

[QUOTE=freighterman;178909] <snip> Or it may be the fact that they were originally painted inside and out with lead paint, a coating often never completely removed in all the subsequent shipyard periods. Damp places like the forepeak and steering room are coated on the inside with something I be…

[QUOTE=c.captain;178939]was the ALYESKA really the AL-IN-ES-KA-SEA which burned in Everett and then sank out in Port Gardner Bay? Yes, a C1-M-AV1 class which were four hatch breakbulk ships with slowspeed diesel powerplants as opposed to steam which made them attractive to use in the fisheries as p…

[QUOTE=c.captain;178939]was the ALYESKA really the AL-IN-ES-KA-SEA which burned in Everett and then sank out in Port Gardner Bay? [/QUOTE] I’ve got several friends who have dived the AL-IN-ES-KA-SEA in recent years. The visibility there usually isn’t conducive to photos or video but Laura has an o…

she burned up at one point and filled with water from fire dept. couldn’t move her as she found the bottom think that was right by the coastal yard I was pretty young when that happened.

I recall mid 90's a family putting flowers in the water at the Everett dock next to where the MSRC Responder moored -somebody was lost diving on the wreck and was never recovered. The wreck sits in 120-130 ft depth and on its side not far from the south end of the marina. Edit- I read the articl…

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