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SS Daniel Webster

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History
NameSS Daniel Webster
NamesakeDaniel Webster
BuilderSouth Portland Shipbuilding Corporation, South Portland, Maine
Yard number211
Way number3
Laid down1 November 1942
Launched28 January 1943
Fate
  • Torpedoed and beached 10 January 1944
  • Scrapped, 1948
General characteristics
TypeLiberty ship
Tonnage7,000 long tons deadweight (DWT)
Length441 ft 6 in (134.57 m)
Beam56 ft 11 in (17.35 m)
Draft27 ft 9 in (8.46 m)
Propulsion
  • Two oil-fired boilers
  • Triple-expansion steam engine
  • Single screw
  • 2,500 hp (1,864 kW)
Speed11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Capacity9,140 tons cargo
Complement41
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. On 10 January 1944, she was torpedoed in the Mediterranean Sea off Oran, French Algeria, and beached. After four years stranded on the coast, the ship was scrapped in 1948.[1]

References

  1. ^ "New England Shipbuilding Company, South Portland ME". shipbuildinghistory.com. Retrieved 2009-12-16.

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