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United States | |
Name | Roger B. Taney |
Namesake | Roger B. Taney |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | Waterman Steamship Corp. |
Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MCE hull 17 |
Awarded | 14 March 1941 |
Builder | Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland[2] |
Cost | $1,421,123[1] |
Yard number | 2004 |
Way number | 4 |
Laid down | 21 June 1941 |
Launched | 6 December 1941 |
Completed | 9 February 1942 |
Identification | |
Fate | Sunk by German submarine U-160, 8 February 1943 |
General characteristics [3] | |
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Length | |
Beam | 57 feet (17 m) |
Draft | 27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
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SS Roger B. Taney was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Roger B. Taney, who was the fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864. Prior to joining the Supreme Court, Taney served as the United States Attorney General and United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Jackson.