Tuesday, August 6, 2013

container ship 'Australia Bear', 1973


Built by Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard in Maryland in 1973, this was one of the San Francisco (California) based Pacific Far East Line C7-S-88 series ships, all of whose names ended with Bear. The company went bankrupt in 1978 and the ships were sold to Sea-Land Service, Inc. This one, with an original grt of 23,673, is still operating under the name Horizon Consumer.

2 comments:

  1. Quite amazing she is still operating 40 years on , and an unusual configaration.

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  2. The Horizon Consumer is sitting outside my office as we speak. It is a back up vessel for Horizon Lines when the main trade route vessels are in dry dock. I'm located in Anchorage, Alaska.

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