The Louise Lykes class was a series of twelve break-bulk and general cargo freighters built at the Avondale Shipyard near New Orleans in the mid-1960s for Lykes Line, which marketed them as Gulf-Far East Clippers under the design code C4-S-66a. Lykes ordered them to replace its aging Second World War fleet and to take advantage of government shipbuilding discounts, and the design grew out of the earlier Mariner-class freighter. Each ship was driven by a single propeller turned by a Westinghouse steam turbine fed by two oil-fired boilers, giving a designed top speed of 20 knots. Two hulls were sunk at the yard by Hurricane Betsy in 1965 and were replaced by new ships of the same names. All were in service by 1968 and promptly carried cargo for the Vietnam War effort. Lykes Line went bankrupt in 1994 and most of the class was scrapped, though TS Kennedy, a Texas A&M training ship, remains in operation.
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awarded a contract to Avondale Shipyard on 4 April 1963 at a cost of $12 million per freighter
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The ships were ordered as a result an attempt to modernize and bolster the American merchant marine.
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1. Massachusetts Maritime Academy: History of the T.S. Enterprise
Massachusetts Maritime AcademyHistory, class
Velma Lykes was the tenth of twelve ships in the Gulf and Far East Clipper Ship class (MARAD design C4-S-66a)
History, ship type
began life as the six hatch general cargo ship Velma Lykes, built for the Lykes Brothers Steamship Company by Avondale Shipyards
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Construction
Work on the lead ship, Louise Lykes, began on 16 January 1964.
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a series of break bulk and general cargo freighters built in the mid-1960s
Propulsion
The steam entered a Westinghouse cross-compound steam turbine
Propulsion, boilers
Two oil-fired, bent-tube, twin-drum marine-type boilers produced 160,000 pounds (73,000 kg) of steam an hour
Propulsion, speed
to reach the designed top speed of 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Propulsion, power
a maximum of 15,500 shaft horsepower (11,600 kilowatts) at 102 RPM
Characteristics
The vessels had a lightship (empty) displacement of 7,178 short tons (6,512 t)
Development, design
The dozen freighters for Lykes Line was given the code C4-S-66a.
Lead, service
After all of the ships entered service by 1968
Development, contract
awarded a contract to Avondale Shipyard on 4 April 1963 at a cost of $12 million per freighter
Lead, country of origin
The ships were ordered as a result an attempt to modernize and bolster the American merchant marine.
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a series of break bulk and general cargo freighters built in the mid-1960s
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