SS Robert M. T. Hunter
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| Name: | SS Robert M. T. Hunter |
| Namesake: | Robert M.T. Hunter |
| Builder: | Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation, Savannah, Georgia |
| Yard number: | 8 |
| Way number: | 3 |
| Laid down: | 11 December 1943 |
| Launched: | 28 March 1943 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1971 |
| 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 Robert M. T. Hunter (MC contract 348) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, an American statesman.
The ship was laid down on December 11, 1942, then launched on March 28, 1943. The ship survived the war only to suffer the same fate as nearly all other Liberty ships that survived did; she was scrapped in 1971.[1]
References
- ↑ "Southeastern Shipbuilding". shipbuildinghistory.com. http://shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/4emergency/wwtwo/southeastern.htm. Retrieved 2009-12-16.
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