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Hellas Liberty. Arthur M. Huddell was built by St Johns River Shipbuilding Company. Her keel was laid on 25 October 1943. She was launched on 7 December and delivered on 18 December. [85] Converted to a pipe carrying ship in 1944 for use in Operation Pluto. [86] Laid up in Suisun Bay in 1946. Sold in 1956 to American Telephone & Telegraph Co. [2]
These lists of Liberty ships are sortable lists, allowing ships to be looked up by hull number. Liberty ships were a type of mass-produced cargo ship built to meet inexpensively the United States's World War II maritime transport needs. List of Liberty ships (A-F) List of Liberty ships (G–Je) List of Liberty ships (Je–L) List of Liberty ...
Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Although British in concept, [3] the design was adopted by the United States for its simple, low-cost construction. Mass-produced on an unprecedented scale, the Liberty ship came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial ...
SS Robert F. Burns: Robert F. Burns: 3146 boxed aircraft transport 30 June 1945: 28 August 1945: Scrapped 1968 SS Robert F. Hoke: Robert F. Hoke: 1968 standard 10 April 1943: 4 May 1943: Torpedoed in the Arabian Sea 1943, refloated and repaired, RN training ship in Bombay 1945, scrapped 1949 SS Robert F. Stockton: Robert F. Stockton: 296 ...
Ship name Namesake MC hull no. Ship type Laid down Launched Fate SS S. Hall Young: S. Hall Young: 479 standard 2 March 1943: 31 March 1943: Sold private 1947, scrapped 1967 SS S. M. Babcock: Stephen Moulton Babcock: 590 standard 5 October 1942: 1 November 1942: Scrapped 1967 SS S. M. Shoemaker: S. M. Shoemaker: 2667 standard 8 July 1944: 10 ...
A. SS A. B. Hammond; SS A. Frank Lever; SS A. J. Cermak; SS A. Mitchell Palmer; SS Abigail Adams; SS Abigail Gibbons; SS Abner Doubleday; SS Abraham Clark; USS Acubens
Marcus Daly shot down two aircraft, but at around 1530 was struck by a kamikaze which made a hole "large enough to drive a train through" and set the ship on fire. Three crew members - one Navy Armed Guard and two Merchant Marine - were killed, and 7 wounded, and 200 troops aboard were listed as killed, wounded or missing.
SS John Barry was a 7,200-ton American Liberty ship in World War II. The ship was built at one of the Kaiser Shipyards in Portland, Oregon, and launched on 23 November 1941. Operated by Lykes Brothers Steamship Company under charter with the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration. [2]