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History
Plan of the SS Ideal X
Name	Ideal X, ex-Potrero Hills, ex-Capt. John D.P., ex-Elemir^[1]
Owner	Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company^[2]
Port of registry	United States
Builder	Rebuilt as container ship at Bethlehem Steel, Baltimore, MD.^[1]
Launched	30 December 1944
Completed	January 1945
Out of service	Sold for scrapping, 1965.^[3]
Identification	Official number: 247155^[4]
Fate	Scrapped in Japan, 1967.^[3]
Notes	Former T2 tanker. Originally built by Marinship Corp. in Sausalito, California as yard number 158 in 1945.^[4]
General characteristics
Class and type	T2-SE-A1
Tonnage	16,460 GRT^[4]
Length	524 ft (160 m)^[1]
Beam	30 ft (9.1 m)^[1]
Height	68 ft (21 m)^[1]
Propulsion	Elliot Company steam turbine, electric propulsion.^[4]
Capacity	58 33-foot containers 10,572 DWT^[4]
The Ideal X was originally constructed as a T2 tanker, similar to the Hat Creek shown here in August 1943.

SS Ideal X, a converted World War II T-2 oil tanker, was the first commercially successful container ship.

Built by The Marinship Corporation during World War II as Potrero Hills, she was later purchased by Malcom McLean's Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company.^[5]^[6]^[7] In 1955, the ship was modified to carry shipping containers and rechristened Ideal X. During her first voyage in her new configuration, on 26 April 1956,^[8] the Ideal X carried 58 containers from Port Newark, New Jersey, to Port of Houston, Texas, where 58 trucks were waiting to be loaded with the containers.^[9] It was not the first purpose built container ship: the Clifford J. Rodgers, operated by the White Pass and Yukon Route, had made its debut in 1955.^[10]

In 1959, the vessel was acquired by Bulgarian owners, who rechristened her Elemir. The Elemir suffered extensive damage during heavy weather on 8 February 1964, and was sold in turn to Japanese breakers. She was finally scrapped on 20 October 1964, in Hirao, Japan.

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Cudahy, 2004, p. 31.
^ Cudahy, 2004, p. 30.
^ ^a ^b Cudahy, 2004, p. 312.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Cudahy, 2004, p. 290.
^ "Marinship".
^ "THe JoC: 175 Years of Change". Archived from the original on 15 September 2007.
^ Cudahy, 2006.
^ "The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey – Press Release".
^ Levinson, 2006, p. 1.
^ Network, MI News (21 March 2019). "Clifford J. Rodgers: The World's First Purpose Built Container Ship". Marine Insight. Retrieved 4 January 2023.

References

Cudahy, Brian J. (2006). Box boats: how container ships changed the world. New York: Fordham University Press. ISBN 0-8232-2568-2.
Cudahy, Brian J. (September–October 2006). "The Containership Revolution: Malcom McLean's 1956 Innovation Goes Global" (PDF). TR News. 246. Washington, D.C.: Transportation Research Board of the National Academies: 5–9. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
Levinson, Marc (2006). The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. pp. 1. ISBN 0-691-12324-1.

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