Containership “President Grant” at Kobe, Japan, October 1972
Owner: American President Lines Inc.
Port of registry: San Francisco
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, Mississippi (Hull-490)
Gross tons: 17,801 or 17,342 (sources differ)
Deadweight: 17,477 or 10,830 (sources differ)
Length overall: 202.4 m
Max. draft: 9.34 m
Container capacity: 1,066 t.e.u.
Engines: 2 x steam turbines, total 24,000 s.h.p., geared to 1 shaft, by General Electric Co., Lynn
Service speed: 23 knots
Completed October 1967 as a general cargo ship (14,762 gross tons, 174.9 m l.o.a.)
1972: lengthened & converted to full containership at Todd Shipyards, San Pedro, California
Ran aground 1st September 1976 in thick fog at the entrance to Keelung, Taiwan; towed free & sunk 8 days later.