| Ship | Hull# | Built | GRT | DWT | Length | Beam | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duncan Bay | 51 | 1956 | 13,013 | 20,476 | 587′ | 84’3″ | Pulp tanker. Carried liquified “noodle pulp”. Engine made 1944, boilers made 1942, reconditioned and installed August 1956. Renamed Cedros Pacific 1971. Broken up Pusan March 1979. |
Duncan Bay was a special purpose tanker built by National Bulk Carriers. She was designed to carry “noodle pulp,” or liquified wood pulp. Crown Zellerbach, a major paper and paper products conglomerate experimented with transporting liquified, or semi-dry pulp produced at a Crown Zellerbach mill in British Columbia to another production mill in Antioch, CA. Duncan Bay was designed and built to perform this task, and was thought to be the answer to the high cost of transporting pulp. However, the experiment was a failure, turning out to be even more costly. The ship was under lease to Crown Zellerbach and when the lease was up, they happily gave it up as a significant money loser. Duncan Bay left the pulp trade. She was renamed Cedros Pacific in 1971 and was most likely used in Ludwig’s great salt export business at Black Warrior Lagoon (Guerrero Negro) on the west coast of Mexico. She was scrapped in 1979.
