Horizon Reliance, Horizon Spirit

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tugboathunter

Re: Horizon Reliance, Horizon Spirit

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Sorry, I said a few things that weren't true in my first reply. The Thomas E. Cuffe was not the first LASH built, just the first for Pacific Far-East Line. Also it appears that several other LASH's are still in existence as part of the MARAD reserve fleet.
tugboathunter

Re: Horizon Reliance, Horizon Spirit

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Yes, they were originally LASH ships, the final two built I believe. Horizon Spirit was originally the Benjamin Harrison and the Reliance was originally the Edward Rutledge, both built for Waterman Steamship. Interestingly, the only other remaining LASH ship is the very first one built, Matson's Lihue (originally the Thomas E. Cuffe of Pacific Far East Line). I sailed on the Lihue for three months last year and it's a great ship. Not sure how much longer they will be around since they are all steamers, although I heard that Pasha was considering repowering the Reliance and Spirit.
William Lafferty
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Re: Horizon Reliance, Horizon Spirit

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Yes. The Horizon Spirit was built as the Benjamin Harrison in 1980 by Avondale and the Horizon Reliance as the Edward Rutledge at the same yard and time, both for Waterman. Sea-Land purchased them in 1990-1991 and converted them to container ships, and they became, later, the Sea-Land Spirit and Sea-Land Reliance and then CSX Spirit and CSX Reliance. They were built to the MarAd LASH design C9-S-81f.
Guest

Re: Horizon Reliance, Horizon Spirit

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They were originally built as LASH ships, but have been converted to container ships for the military. It was planned to repower both ships a few years back, but I don't know if this was done.
Mr Link
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Horizon Reliance, Horizon Spirit

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Forgive me for straying away from the Great Lakes for a moment.

Were the Horizon Reliance and Horizon Spirit built as barge carrying ships? (LASH or some variant?) They have that unique stern, but I haven't found much of a history yet online.

Thanks in advance for any info.

The link below is to a story today on the gCaptain site about the Horizon Spirit ending its relief efforts in Puerto Rico and returning to the Pacific. It includes a great stern view of the ship.

http://gcaptain.com/pasha-hawaiis-horiz ... erto-rico/
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