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SL-7

Using an SL-7 to Preserve our

Container Ship History?

By Rik van Hemmen have raised the subject of SL-7’s as museum ships be- in the lifetime of our older sailors in arms, we turned the fore in a cursory fashion, but lunch with John Riddle, world upside down with the introduction of containerization.

a retired Sea-Lander, convinced us that it deserves a The United States and, to a signi? cant extent Malcolm bit more consideration. McLean, but also many other Americans, can fairly lay

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Based on prior columns it should be clear I am extremely claim to being the originators of the concept. Somehow this cagey about museum ships. Ships are signi? cant historic is worthy of memorialization, but, to date, no effort in this object, but due to their size they are often impossible to regard has been made.

maintain as historical objects. Moreover, we maritime Worse, the ? rst containers ships have all long gone to the types tend to become sentimental about historic vessels and scrap yard, and the question arises as to how we would pre- then discover that the rest of the world really does not care serve the history of the container ship.

that much about our maritime history and museum ships In this regard I would like to make a modest (well maybe tend to struggle to survive due to a lack of the larger popu- an ambitious, but ef? cient) proposal.

lation’s attention. The SL-7’s are nearing the end of their lives and may-

Meanwhile, maritime continues to make history and, with- be not soon, but certainly inevitably, will end up being

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