SS Daniel Webster
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| Name: | SS Daniel Webster |
| Namesake: | Daniel Webster |
| Builder: | South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation, South Portland, Maine |
| Yard number: | 211 |
| Way number: | 3 |
| Laid down: | 1 November 1942 |
| Launched: | 28 January 1943 |
| Fate: |
Torpedoed and beached, 1944 Scrapped, 1948 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Liberty ship |
| Tonnage: | 7,000 long tons deadweight (DWT) |
| Length: | 441 ft 6 in (134.57 m) |
| Beam: | 56 ft 11 in (17.35 m) |
| Draft: | 27 ft 9 in (8.46 m) |
| Propulsion: |
Two oil fired boilers Triple expansion steam engine Single screw 2,500 hp (1,864 kW) |
| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Capacity: | 9,140 tons cargo |
| Complement: | 41 |
| Armament: |
• 1 × Stern-mounted 4 in (100 mm) deck gun • AA guns |
SS Daniel Webster (MC contract 211) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II.
Named after Daniel Webster, an American statesman, the ship was laid down by South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation in South Portland, Maine at their West Yard. on 1 November 1942, then launched on 28 January 1943. In 1944 it was torpedoed off Oran and beached. After four years of sitting, in 1948, the ship was scrapped.[1]
References
- ↑ "New England Shipbuilding Company, South Portland ME". shipbuildinghistory.com. http://shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/4emergency/wwtwo/newengland.htm. Retrieved 2009-12-16.
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