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The Luckenbach Family flotilla - 9/20/2010 7:36:02 PM

Saburo Kurusu

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I wondered how many ships of those I can sink -they just seem to respawn again like weeds- when discovering that there are twenty (!) of them in game!
After a short internet research I learned about the history of the "Luckenbach Steamship Co." from New York, one of the longest-lived shipping companies in the States from 1850 to 1974.... Interesting indeed!
Ironically, there's a village "Luckenbach" in Texas, founded by German immigrants of that name, and about 100 km away from my home town I can also find a "Luckenbach", which is significantly older, with first written records from around the 14th century.... Those are the sometimes funny turns of history......

But no sentimental feelings can hinder me sending all of them down to the seafloors of the Pacific!!!

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RE: The Luckenbach Family flotilla - 9/20/2010 8:54:38 PM

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ORIGINAL: Saburo Kurusu
I wondered how many ships of those I can sink -they just seem to respawn again like weeds- when discovering that there are twenty (!) of them in game!
After a short internet research I learned about the history of the "Luckenbach Steamship Co." from New York, one of the longest-lived shipping companies in the States from 1850 to 1974.... Interesting indeed!
Ironically, there's a village "Luckenbach" in Texas, founded by German immigrants of that name, and about 100 km away from my home town I can also find a "Luckenbach", which is significantly older, with first written records from around the 14th century.... Those are the sometimes funny turns of history......

But no sentimental feelings can hinder me sending all of them down to the seafloors of the Pacific!!!

A fabulously innovative shipping company. Had marine architects on staff and designed their own flag vessels. The Lewis Luckenbach is in both the Smithsonian and the Hall of Fame at the Pratt School at MIT.

Built 1919 at Bethlehem, Quincy, she was 496� lpp, 68� moulded breadth, and 40� draft of hold (..big!..). Built as a scantling deck (at the time, rated as a shelter deck) she turned every trick in the book as to cheating rated tonnage. She was either 6,574 grt, 4045 nrt, or 10,662 grt, 6784 nrt, before or after the rating scale change � Woof!!

In terms of Dwt, she could carry more than an EC2, and darn near as much as a VC2, more than a C3-E and getting into the range of a C3-S. Plumb bow, cruiser stern, rising bilges, sweet prismatic, twin screws; she was one mother of a boat. Designed 1916, built 1919, she outperformed everything on every ocean till the Maritime Commission C3-S, twenty years later.

Yeah, Luckenbach Lines was pretty hot. But like all US shipping companies in the 60s and 70s, Luckenbach was sold foreign. Heck, I remember when their local ops quit Tampa and moved to Bradenton.

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RE: The Luckenbach Family flotilla - 9/20/2010 9:12:43 PM

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Thank you very much for that real insider info!

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RE: The Luckenbach Family flotilla - 9/20/2010 9:47:59 PM

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Ah, just a company. I thought they were a family, and that they were breeding like rats! Luckenbachs everywhere!

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RE: The Luckenbach Family flotilla - 9/20/2010 10:02:53 PM

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Just a bit before my time.

But I did sail on this one as able bodied seaman in the late 1970s.

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RE: The Luckenbach Family flotilla - 9/20/2010 10:04:12 PM

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Just a bit before my time.

But I did sail on this one as able bodied seaman in the late 1970s. She was a two house C-4 troopship and they just cut the forward house off and stuck it on top of the rear house. Not too pretty but a good ship anyways..