page_title: Type C5 ship
section_title: Conversions
hierarchical_section_title: Type C5 ship / Ships in class / Conversions
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial photo of the United States Military Sealift Command ship SS Cornhusker State (T-ACS-6)
context_page_description: The Type C5 ship is a United States Maritime Administration designation for World War II breakbulk cargo and later a container ship for containerization shipments. The first type C5-class ship was a class of ships constructed and produced in the United States during World War II. The World War II C5-class ship was dry bulk cargo ship built by Bethlehem Steel in Sparrows Point, Maryland. Bethlehem Steel built eight ships in this bulk cargo class and four orders were canceled. The C5-class ship has a 24,250 DWT and was 560 feet long. The C5 was mainly used as iron ore carriers. The C5 was needed to replace other ships that sank during World War II. First in her class was SS Venore, USMC #1982, delivered on 20 July 1945. The Type C5-class ship designed to fill the need to move iron ore from Santa Cruz, Chile, to Sparrows Point, Maryland, through the Panama Canal, a round-trip of 8,700 nautical miles.
  Post World War II, four ships were given C5 class type C5-S-78a, these were roll-on/roll-off container ship built by Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc. of Pascagoula, Mississippi and operated by the Moore-McCormack Lines. The C5-S-78a had a deadweight tonnage of 16,000 tons.
context_section_description: C5-S-37e conversions
  Some C3-S-37a cargo ships were modified in the 1970s to a new C5-S-37e design by the Todd Shipyards Corp., Galveston, Texas. C3-class ships was lengthened by 97.5 feet (29.7 m) to be a class C5.
  James Lykes 1960,  scrapped in 1995.
  Joseph Lykes 1960,  scrapped in 1996.
  Zoella Lykes 1960, scrapped 1995 at Alang.
  John Lykes 1960, scrapped 1995 at Alang.
  Thompson Lykes 1960, rebuilt into a barge in 1994.
  C5-S-73b, Sea Witch class, built by Bath Iron Works for American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines 1968. holds 928 20 ft (6.1 m) containers.
  C.V.Lightning, converted to C5-S-MA73c, crane ship renamed SS Flickertail State
  C.V.Sea Witch, later converted into a chemical carrier, renamed MV Chemical Pioneer
  C.V.Stag Hound, converted to C5-S-MA73c, crane ship renamed SS Cornhusker State (T-ACS-6)
  Export Freedom scrapped in 1997 at Alang
  Export Leader, converted to C5-S-MA73c, crane ship renamed SS Gopher State (T-ACS-4)
  Export Patriot,  scrapped in 1998
  C5-S-MA73c is the Gopher State-class crane ship made for the Military Sealift Command, converted by Norfolk SB & DD Company at Norfolk, Virginia
  C5-S-75a built by Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newport News, Virginia for the American Mail Line Ltd.of Seattle, Washington as break bulk cargo or container ship, with 21,600 shp (16,100 kW) at 15,950 tons, 21.0 knots (38.9 km/h; 24.2 mph). The largest general cargo liners in 1969.
  Alaskan Mail 1968, renamed SS Cape Girardeau 1978. Assigned for non-retention inNational Defense Reserve Fleet as of April 2020
  Indian Mail renamed SS Cape Gibson,assigned for non-retention in the National Defense Reserve Fleet as of April 2020
  Korean Mail built 1969, scrapped 1995.
  Hong Kong Mail built 1968,  renamed SS Wilson in 1978, scrapped June 2008.
  American Mail (1969) later renamed SS Cleveland, scrapped 2009
caption: SS Cornhusker State, ex C.V. Stag Hound, a C5-S-73b conversion
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