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Originally Posted by Don Boose
Nice work on Wayne's T-2, Bob!
Incidentally, USMC Fallen Timbers (Maritime Commission Hull Number 803) was built at the Kaiser Swan Island Shipyard in Portland, Oregon, was launched on 21 April 1943 and completed in May of 1943.
There is a lot of information about the U.S. Maritime Commission T-2 tankers is available at T2 Tanker Page
Images of Fallen Timbers and its subsequent manifestations are at Fallen Timbers
A lot of T-2s were named after American battles. The Battle of Fallen Timbers was the last battle of the Northwest Indian Wars and was fought on 20 August 1794. Soldiers of the Legion of the United States (as the U.S. Regular Army was known at that time) commanded by General Anthony Wayne and the Kentucky Militia commanded by General Charles Scott defeated a combined force of Shawnee, Ottawa, and other Native American warriors near the Maumee River in Ohio. Fallen Timbers Battlefield and Fort Miamis National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
I'm looking forward to your next build, Bob.
Don |
The name T2 is the name for a category of tankers built by/for the USMC and also the name of the first design in that category. An example of a "true" T2 tanker is the SS Corsicana, built in 1940/1941 and taken over by the US Navy as
AO-36 USS Kennebec
Fallen Timbers is from another design in the T2 category, T2-SE-A1. The most important differences are the dimensions (SS Corsicana measured about 150 meter over all (501 feet), Fallen Timbers was nearly 10 meters longer, 159 meter.
Fallen Timbers' powerplant (steam electro) differed from SS Corsicana (steam turbine). SS Corsicana was 1,5 knots faster than Fallen Timbers
In total 533 tankers in the category T2 were built, and from that number 481 were built to the T2-SE-A1 design