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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Builder | Fore River Shipyard |
| Launched | 18 December 1961 |
| Identification | IMO number: 5219369 |
| Fate | Scrapped c.1987 |
| General characteristics as built | |
| Type | Oil tanker |
| Tonnage | 105,000 deadweight tonnage |
| Length | 940 ft (290 m) |
| Beam | 132 ft (40 m) |
| Speed | 17–18 knots (31–33 km/h; 20–21 mph) |
| General characteristics post conversion | |
| Type | Oil tanker icebreaker |
| Tonnage | 115,000 deadweight tonnage |
| Length | 1,005 ft (306 m) |
| Beam | 148 ft (45 m) |
| Draft | 52 ft (16 m) |
| Installed power | 43,000 shp (32,000 kW) |
| Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
SS Manhattan was an oil tanker constructed at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, that became the first commercial ship to cross the Northwest Passage in 1969. Having been built as an ordinary tanker in 1962, she was refitted for ice navigation during this voyage with an icebreaker bow in 1968–69.
Registered in the United States at the time, she was the largest US merchant vessel.[1]
In 1965, she was taken to Portland, Oregon via the Columbia River, to be cleaned and used to transport 50,000 tons of grain. The size and draught of the ship required careful preparations for her transit on the river.[2]
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Manhattan remained in service until 1987. After an accident in East Asia she was scrapped in China.
- ^ Comptroller General of the United States. Annual Report - 1974 - United States General Accounting Office. U.S. General Accounting Office. p. 155.
- ^ Duke, Bob (21 April 2015). "Water Under the Bridge". The Astorian. Archived from the original on 30 May 2020. Retrieved 30 May 2020.