History | |
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Name | Gunston Hall |
Builder | Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation |
Yard number | 1 |
Laid down | May 30, 1918 |
Launched | February 27, 1919 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1930 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Design 1015 ship |
Type | Cargo ship |
Tonnage | 9,455 dwt |
Length | 402 ft 0 in (122.53 m) |
Beam | 53 ft 0 in (16.15 m) |
Draft | 32 ft 0 in (9.75 m) |
SS Gunston Hall was a Design 1015 steel-hulled cargo ship built in 1919 by the Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation for the United States Shipping Board's Emergency Fleet Corporation. Initially intended for service in World War I, Gunston Hall was not completed until after the war's end. The ship was sold for scrap in 1930.