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United States | |
Name | Henry St. George Tucker |
Namesake | Henry St. George Tucker |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | American South African Line, Inc. |
Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MCE hull 37 |
Awarded | 14 March 1941 |
Builder | Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland[2] |
Cost | $1,066,754[1] |
Yard number | 2024 |
Way number | 10 |
Laid down | 25 February 1942 |
Launched | 14 May 1942 |
Sponsored by | Miss Dorothy Baskarvill |
Completed | 27 May 1942 |
Identification | |
Fate | Sold for scrapping, 2 February 1966 |
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Length | |
Beam | 57 feet (17 m) |
Draft | 27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m) |
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Speed | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
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SS Henry St. George Tucker was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Henry St. George Tucker, a Virginia jurist, law professor, and US Congressman (1815–1819).