Other name(s): Haerunger; Malacca Straits; W.J. Connors
Ship owner: Great Lakes Transit Corp.; Haerunger H/F; Lehigh Valley Transit Co.; Overlakes Freight Corporation; U.S. Maritime Commission
Ship builder: Buffalo Dry Dock Co., Buffalo, New York
Engine builder: Detroit Shipbuilding Co., Wyandotte, Michigan
Year ship built: 1901
Year engine built: 1901
Final disposition: Scrapped in Europe c.1957.
Notes:
Sold to Iceland after World War II. To ocean 1942 and converted by Boland Machine & Manufacturing Co., New Orleans ni 1942 and Albina Engineering & Machine Co., Portland, Oregon in 1948. Dimensions changed to 26.6 X 50.5 X 380 and tonnage to Gross 5056.
Remarks:
Names:
b) W. J. Connors (1920)
c) Malacca Straits (1942)
d) W. J. Connors (1943)
e) Haerunger (Iceland) (1950)
Owners:
1) Lehigh Valley Transit Co.; 2) Great Lakes Transit Corp., Buffalo, New York (1919);3) U. S. Maritime Commission (1943); 4) Overlakes Freight Corp. (1947); 5) Haerunger H/F, Reykavik, Iceland (1950).
Registry number: US. 93133
Hull number: 98
Vessel type: Package freighter
Height: 28
Width: 50.5
Length: 381.7
Stroke length: 42
Gross tonnage: 4625
Net tonnage: 3735
Materials: Steel
Engine type: Quadruple expansion
Piston 1: 20
Piston 2: 30
Piston 3: 43
Piston 4: 63