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USA flag, built 1940, gross tons 7773, she staid with Lykes from 1940 to 1965. She is a C3-S-A1 vessel.
vessel maybe deleted, as it is a scan from a postcard I received from the company. I do not know if there still is a copyright on that photo
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General cargo ships built 1940-1949 (Over 3000gt) - 1 photos
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Gerolf
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In the case of the shown Lykes postcard photograph, however, the situation is crystal clear : The backside of that card indicates that the original copyright in 1940 was with Lykes Lines, a company, which, however, does not exist anymore.
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Having said all that, it is extremely unlikely that anyone's commercial interests are compromised, and I suggest it remain unless some clearer indication of status becomes available.
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I have met the Frederick Lykes in January 1960, coming into the port of Bremen (Germany). And I met the Howell Lykes in Nov. 1962, also in Bremen, discharging cargo from the US Gulf.
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It is really good now to have a such good helping community on shipspotting.
Gerolf
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I’m not sure if I’m clarifying anything, or muddying the waters. I have this same image in an 8x10 from Lykes Lines, and the name clearly shows as HOWELL LYKES on the bow. The name is so crisp it’s possible it’s been added. But I do have another 8x10 of the same ship taken by Karl DeVries in Capetown in the 1950’s, with the name just as crisp and in identical lettering. The outfitting of the ship is basically identical, but her stack has been shortened, there’s a bit more house on the “02” deck, the lifeboat is in gravity instead of crescent davits, and one really timely change: she has a radar mast. Note that the photo posted here (and mine with the name on her) have only a short RDF mast and nothing else. My photo is credited to Geer Studio in New Orleans, but since it’s obviously a pre-War shot, Geer probably just “re-mastered” the photo for modern use by Lykes.
Her designation, incidentally, wasn’t properly C3-S-A1 or -A2, although they were all basically the same. When these came out, the designation system hadn’t become as detailed, and she was simply called a “C3-Cargo (S)” with the “S” indicating she had steam propulsion. There was a (D) for diesel propulsion, which included the ship converted to the first U. S. escort carrier USS LONG ISLAND and later served as the immigrant/educational ship SEVEN SEAS. Federal Shipbuilding delivered four of these steam units to Lykes. In addition to the three mentioned (FREDERICK, HOWELL, and ALMERIA) there was also DOCTOR LYKES which was picked up by the Navy as USS HAMUL (AK 30 / AD 20) and never saw any further merchant service.
If the name HOWELL LYKES on mine is dubbed in, I’d have to bet on this being a photo of FREDERICK LYKES, since she was the first delivered to them and so most likely to have been photographed professionally for the Maritime Commission who produced the original pre-war photos.
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the question is, has the Lykes company kept an old foto (Doctor Lykes was sold to the USS Reserve fleet in 1941) for so long in their archives, that they could send it to a shiplover asking for fotos in 1971.
Kind regards
Gerolf
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My assumption would be that the extra mast at the stern was a postwar modification to many of the C3's. The motorship variants of the C3 built by Sun Ship seem to have had the mast from build, so the others may have been rebuilt to match their cargo-handling performance.
Navsource has this same photo on the page for the USS HAMUL, ex-DOCTOR LYKES, ex-SEA PANTHER, identifying it as that vessel.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/03/0320.htm
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Year: 1940
Name: SEA HOUND
Type: Cargo ship
Launch Date: 24.2.40
Flag: USA
Date of completion: 4.40
Tons: 7773
Link: 1735
DWT: 12902
Yard No: 163
Length overall: 150.0
Ship Design: C3
LPP: 141.8
Country of build: USA
Beam: 21.2
Builder: Federal SB & DD Co
Location of yard: Kearny
Number of screws/Mchy/Speed(kn): 1ST-16.5
1940 FREDERICK LYKES - 65 HARBOR HILLS - 65 KINGS POINT
BU Kaohsiung 21.6.71 [Li Chong Steel & Iron Works Co Ltd]
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possible you've find this Frederick Lykes photo
http://www.navsource.org/archives/30/13/301303602.jpg
very similar with mystery
Howell Lykes a little different..But maybe she modified with a mast on the astern
https://www.ebay.com/itm/rp02959-Ex-Cargo-Ship-Howell-Lykes-as-Grand-Valing-photo-6x4-/391122183844
Another one Almeria Lykes
https://www.armed-guard.com/mf3953.html
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