Ships of  San Juan Carriers Ltd

                                                                                                                                            Edited by Hans-Jürgen Hollstein


                                                                    The fleet of “SAN JUAN CARRIERS LTD”                                                                                                                                  The fleet of “MARCONA CARRIERS LTD”

IDNo: 6310093 Year: 1963 Name: SAN JUAN PATHFINDER Keel: 29.10.1962 Type: Ore/oil carrier Launch Date: 19. 3.1963 Flag: LBR Date of completion: 15. 8.1963 Tons: 45,513 ; DWT: 72,344 ; Yard No: 675 Length overall: 254.51m; LPP: 244.45 m ; Beam: 32.31m ; Draft :13.65 m; Country of build: JPN Builder: Mitsui ; Location of yard: Tamano Engine : IHI steam turbine, 22,500 BHP, 106 RPM 1973 Lengthened & deepened 296.5/286.7m, 64637gt] BU Kaohsiung 16.2.1979 [Kang Hua Enterprise Co] ID Year Name Tons Change Registered Owner Port 6310093 1963 SAN JUAN PATHFINDER 45513 San Juan Carriers Ltd LBR Monrovia SAN JUAN PATHFINDER 1972 Marcona Carriers Ltd LBR Monrovia MARCONA PATHFINDER 64637 1973 Marcona Carriers Ltd LBR Monrovia HWA LEE 1976 Eddie SS Co Ltd TWN Keelung

SAN JUAN PATHFINDER

IDNo: 7032636 Year: 1971 Name: FURNESS BRIDGE Keel: Type: Ore/Bulk/Oil Launch Date: 16.10.1970 Flag: GBR Date of completion: 8.1971 Tons: 91,079 ; DWT: 168,728 ; G 171,260 cbm ; Yard No: 25 Length overall: 294.19 m ; LPP: 281.95 m ; Beam: 44.28 m; Draft: 18.44 m Country of build: GBR Builder: Swan Hunter ; Location of yard: Haverton Hill Engine : B&W 8K98FF: 30,400 BHP BU Huangpu 26.3.92 ID Year Name Tons Change Registered Owner Port 7032636 1971 FURNESS BRIDGE 91079 Seabridge Shipping Co. GBR LAKE ARROWHEAD 1977 Utah Transport Co LBR Monrovia MARCONA PATHFINDER 77315 1982 Marcona Carriers Ltd. LBR Monrovia WORLD PATHFINDER 1983 Paramount Transport Co LBR Monrovia OCEAN SOVEREIGN 1986 Nerice Maritime Co. CYP Limassol

FURNESS BRIDGE

The FURNESS BRIDGE, 77,316 gross tons, 964ft x 144ft was launched on 16th Oct.1970 for the Seabridge Shipping Co, part of the Furness / Houlder group. She was an iron ore carrier, but fitted to carry oil if needed and was a sister ship to the infamous DERBYSHIRE which was lost with all hands in a typhoon in the Pacific. In 1977 the FURNESS BRIDGE was sold to the Utah Transport Co, Monrovia, Liberia, renamed LAKE ARROWHEAD and chartered to the Australian National Line. 1982 she became the MARCONA PATHFINDER, owned by Marcona Carriers Ltd, Monrovia, part of the U.S.owned San Juan Carriers group. 1983 sold to Paramount Transport Co, Monrovia, renamed WORLD PATHFINDER. 1986 sold to Nerice Maritime Co, Limassol, Cyprus, renamed OCEAN SOVEREIGN. 6th Mar.1992 Arrived at Huangpu, China for scrapping.

Utah Construction Company was incorporated in Ogden on January 8, 1900.
The principal business of the company in its early years was railroad construction.
From 1916 to 1969, Utah Construction Company built 58 dams. Most were in the
Western United States providing hydroelectric power and irrigation for farming in that region.
In 1931, Utah joined Six Companies Inc. to raise the surety required to bid for the Boulder
(Hoover) Dam contract. One of the world’s largest dams, Hoover Dam was completed in 1936
at a cost of $ 49 million.
When the demand for railway construction tapered off, Utah Construction Company
turned its interests to mining. In 1944, it acquired its first mine, Iron Ore Springs, in Utah. The
growth of the company’s mining business was rapid and in 1959 the company changed its name
to Utah Construction and Mining Company.
In the 1950s, Utah Construction diversified into mining, becoming the Utah Construction & Mining Co. These ventures included
the Marcona iron mine in Peru, the Lucky Mc uranium mine in Wyoming, and the Navajo coal mine and power plant in the Four
Corners area of the United States southwest.
In 1969, Utah sold its construction business to Fluor Corporation and mining became its
sole business.
A mining engineer, Harvey S. Mudd (1888-1955) was a graduate of Stanford and Columbia Universities. He served with distinction
as president of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.
In 1951 Allen D. Christensen became the company's general manager and executive vice president.
1952-74 Founder and President of the Marcona Mining Company (financed by Utah Construction Company and Cyprus Mines),
which began by operating an iron ore mine out of San Juan, Peru. (This region was named the District of Marcona by the Peruvian
government in 1955.) The Marcona board members from Utah Construction consisted of Mariner Eccles, Ed Littlefield and Alan
Christensen. Through Robinson’s arguably reckless vision, the Marcona company expanded into the shipping industry. In an effort
to support the transport of iron ore to Japan, Robinson continued to push for larger ships eventually designing and in 1961
constructing the first Panamax, the largest vessel to navigate the Panama Canal. This 105,000 ton ship received much press
coverage at the time.
155/2/2: San Juan Carriers, Ltd.
2.1 S.S. Allen D. Christensen: 1956
2.2 San Juan Prospector: 1964
2.3 San Juan Traveler: 1971
2.4 San Juan Pioneer: [n.d.]
2.5 San Juan Trader: [n.d.]
The first and last vessel from above were fully managed by the American branch of Johs. Fritzen & Sohn Inc..
Other innovations included the development of a slurry system (Marconaflo) to transport iron ore from mine into and out of ships in
a fluid state and development of the first joint oil/ore carriers.
Marcona Corporation became a major ship owner and operator as well as a mining company. Marcona had a fleet of 25+ large
crude oil tankers, mineral carriers, bulk cargo ships and OBO combination ships.
San Juan Navigation Corp, a dry cargo operator based on the west coast of the United States suspended operations as of November
11th, 2011.
The company had mining interests in Peru, New Zealand,and in Brazil and was the pioneer in the 'slurry' handling of iron ore and
other mineral products by the use of Marconjets in the inner bottoms of the ships cargo holds. Marcona carried iron ore from ports
in Tasu, BC and South America to ports in Japan where the ore was then processed into steel.
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