 USAT Norlago in 1943, a design 1099 freighter originally named Fargo
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | EFC Design 1099 |
| Completed | 91 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Cargo ship |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 251 ft (77 m) |
| Beam | 43 ft 6 in (13.26 m) |
| Draft | 24 ft 2 in (7.37 m) |
| Propulsion | Oil-fired triple-expansion steam engine |
The Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1099 was a steel-hulled cargo ship design approved for mass production by the United States Shipping Board's Emergency Fleet Corporation in World War I. A total of 91 of these ships were produced. Of these, 88 were purchased by the Shipping Board. The remaining three were cancelled by the Shipping Board, but completed for private companies.
The design 1099 ships became part of a global glut of shipping capacity in the 1920s, after the war's demands subsided. Many of them were idled, two dozen were scrapped, and most of the remainder were sold to cargo fleets around the world by the Shipping Board. By the beginning of World War II they were very widespread and carried critical materials for all the major combatants. Twenty-five of the ships were sunk by enemy action during the war. The last of the class was likely wrecked in 1958.