Type C3-class ship

Type C3

Exporter, the first C3 ship to be completed. Shown in 1943, after conversion by the US Navy to missing name.
Class overview
Preceded by:	Type C2
Succeeded by:	Type C4
Built:	1940–1947
Completed:	238
General characteristics
Tonnage:	7,800 gross tons
Displacement:	12,000 deadweight tons.
Length:	492 ft (150 m)
Beam:	69.5 ft (21.2 m)
Draft:	28.5 ft (8.7 m)
Installed power:	turbine developing 8,500 hp
Speed:	16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) (designed)

Type C3-class ships were the third type of cargo ship designed by the United States Maritime Commission (MARCOM) in the late 1930s. As it had done with the Type C1 ships and Type C2 ships, MARCOM circulated preliminary plans for comment. The design presented was not specific to any service or trade route, but was a general purpose ship that could be modified for specific uses. A total of 162 C3 ships were built from 1939 to 1946.^[1]

The C3 was larger and faster than the C1 and C2 contemporaries, measuring 492 feet (150 m) from stem to stern (vs. 459 feet (140 m) for the C2), and designed to make 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) (vs. 15.5 kn (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) for the C2). Like the C2, it had five cargo holds. A total of 465 of these ships were built between 1940 and 1947. A total of 75 ships were built with C3 hulls and engines, but not built as cargo ships.

During World War II, many C3 ships were converted to naval uses, particularly as Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.s, and as Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. and Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.s, Klondike-class destroyer tenders, submarine tenders, and seaplane tenders.

• C3 DWT 12,595
  • Elizabeth C. Stanton-class (AP 4 hulls)
• C3 multiple or unverified sub-types
  • Klondike-class (AD 4 hulls)
  • President Jackson-class (AP 2+5 hulls, APA 5)
  • Windsor-class (AP 1 hull, APA 8+1)
  • Kenneth Whiting-class (AV 4 hulls) ^[2]
• C3-A DWT 10,000 as in missing name
• C3-E DWT 9,514 as in missing name
• C3-P&C DWT 10,000 some converted to Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
• C3-S-A1 DWT 12,595 as in Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. some converted to Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
• C3-S-A2 DWT 12,595
  • Bayfield-class (AP 16 hulls, APA 16+18)
  • Aegir-class (AS 4 hulls)
• C3-S1-A3 DWT 12,595
  • Frederick Funston-class (AP 2 hulls, APA same 2 hulls)
• C3-S-A4 DWT 11,000 the six President ships
• C3-S-A5 DWT 11,800 as in Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.
• C3-S1-BR1 DWT 9,900, three built: Del Norte, Del Sud & Del Mar
• C3-S-BH1 DWT 12,600 five built: Tillie Lykes, Almeria Lykes, Lipscomb Lykes, Norman Lykes & Doctor Lykes
• C3 Mod. DWT 12,430, as in missing name
• C3 conversion: Two Sun Ship C3 ships were converted to Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.s. Mormacmail renamed missing name and Mormacland renamed Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. both were converted to escort carriers, at a top speed of 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph).^[3][4]

• Ingalls Shipbuilding, MS: 80
• Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation, WA: 43
• Western Pipe and Steel Company, CA: 43
• Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard, MD: 21
• Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, NJ: 19
• Newport News Shipbuilding, VA: 10
• Bethlehem Fore River, MA: 8
• Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., PA: 8
• Moore Dry Dock Company, CA: 4
• Tampa Shipbuilding Company, FL: 2

• 45 Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.s
• 59 Attack transports
  • 3 Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
  • 4 Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
  • 2 Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
  • 9 Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
  • 34 Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
  • 7 Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
• 7 Submarine tenders
  • missing name
  • 2 Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
  • 4 Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
• 2 Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.s
  • AR-9 (prev: AK-29), AR-12
• 2 Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.s
  • missing name, missing name
• 2 Seaplane tenders
  • missing name, missing name

• Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. a C3-E, was torpedoed and sank off the coast of Madagascar on 30 June 1942.
• Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. a C3, renamed Empire Condor was torpedoed and sank off coast of Tunisia on 13 August 1942.
• Rio Hudson a C3-P&C, rebuilt and converted to Avenger-class escort carrier. Was renamed Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. was torpedoed and sank near Gibraltar on 15 November 1942.
• missing name USN CVE-21, a C3-S-A1, was torpedoed and sank near the Azores-Canary Islands on 29 May 1944.
• Rio de Janeiro a C3-P&C, Avenger-class escort carrier, renamed Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist., exploded and sank in the Lower Clyde in Scotland in 1943.
• The SS Jacob Luckenbach, originally Sea Robbin, sank on 14 July 1953 after a collision off San Francisco in fog with another C3 ship, the SS Hawaiian Pilot (originally missing name). Both ships were built at Ingalls and were only five hull numbers apart. The wreck was determined in 2002 to be a source of oil pollution and about 85,000 gallons of oil were removed.^[5]
• The USNS Card was attacked on 2 May 1964, while moored dockside in Saigon, a North Vietnamese frogman, Lam Son Nao, planted an explosive charge that blew a hole in the hull, killing five crewmen.

• Type C1 ship
• Type C2 ship
• Type C4 ship
• Type R ship
• T1 tanker
• T2 tanker
• T3 tanker
• Liberty ship
• Victory ship
• Park ship
• Fort ship
• Hog Islander
• U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

• Sawyer, L.A.; Mitchell, W.H. (1981). From America to United States: The History of the Long-range Merchant Shipbuilding Programme of the United States Maritime Commission. London: World Ship Society. 
• "United States Maritime Commission C3 Type Ships". http://www.usmm.org/c3ships.html. 

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