SS Hat Creek
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| SS Hat Creek in August 1943 | |
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| Name: | SS Hat Creek |
| Namesake: | Hat Creek |
| Builder: | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company, Mobile, Alabama |
| Laid down: | 1943 |
| Launched: | 1943 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1983 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | T2-SE-A1 tanker |
| Displacement: | 21,880 long tons (22,231 t) |
| Length: | 523 ft (159 m) |
| Beam: | 68 ft (21 m) |
| Draft: | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Propulsion: | Turbo-electric, single screw, 7,240 shp (5,399 kW) |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Range: | 12,600 nmi (23,300 km) |
SS Hat Creek was a Type T2-SE-A1 tanker built at Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company of Mobile, Alabama in July 1943. It was built as hull number 251 and USMC number 5354. It was sold in 1946 to National Bulk Carriers, Inc. and a year later had a new two cylinder steam turbine installed. In 1957, it had a new middle section installed and was renamed the Amoco Virginia. Subsequent renamings included the Point Judy (1979) and the Point Milton (1980).
Parts of the old middle section were converted into deck barges and named Venemac 5 and Venemac 6.
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