SS Flying Enterprise

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Still from newsreel footage of SS Flying Enterprise when she was sinking, 10 January 1952
History
Name	1944: SS Cape Kumukaki 1947: SS Flying Enterprise
Owner	1944: War Shipping Administration 1947: Isbrandtsen Company
Port of registry	1944:  Los Angeles 1947:  New York
Builder	Consolidated Steel Corporation, Wilmington, California
Yard number	360
Launched	7 January 1944
Completed	March 1944
In service	18 March 1944
Identification	Official number 215133 Code letters KWFZ
Fate	Sank 10 January 1952
General characteristics
Type	Type C1-B ship
Tonnage	6,711 GRT
Length	396 ft 5 in (120.83 m), pp
Beam	60 ft 1 in (18.31 m)
Height	25 ft 8 in (7.82 m)
Propulsion	2 x Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co steam turbines, double reduction geared driving one screw. 4,000 hp (3,000 kW)
Speed	14 knots (26 km/h)
Crew	48, plus 10 passengers

SS Flying Enterprise was a 6,711 ton Type C1-B ship which sank off Cornwall in 1952. She was built in 1944 as SS Cape Kumukaki for the United States Maritime Commission for use in World War II. The ship was sold in 1947 and operated in scheduled service under the name Flying Enterprise. At the end of 1951, on a voyage from Hamburg to the USA with mixed cargo and a few passengers, she was crippled by storm damage and shifting cargo. Passengers and crew were evacuated. Three weeks of effort to save the ship having failed, she sank in January and some of the cargo was later salvaged.