SS Joseph Hewes
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Name | Joseph Hewes |
Namesake | Joseph Hewes |
Builder | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina |
Yard number | 26 |
Way number | 7 |
Laid down | 22 September 1941 |
Launched | 29 March 1942 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Liberty ship |
Tonnage | 7,000 long tons deadweight (DWT) |
Length | 441 ft 6 in (134.57 m) |
Beam | 56 ft 11 in (17.35 m) |
Draft | 27 ft 9 in (8.46 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
Capacity | 9,140 tons cargo |
Complement | 41 |
Armament |
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SS Joseph Hewes (MC contract 217) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Joseph Hewes, Secretary of the Naval Affairs in the 2nd Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence for North Carolina.
The ship was laid down by North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in their Cape Fear River yard on September 22, 1941, and launched on March 29, 1942.[1] She was chartered to A.H. Bull and Company upon completion in 1942 by the War Shipping Administration. This was renewed in May 1947. In August of that year it was chartered to the States Marine Corporation. It was briefly operated in October 1948 by the South Atlantic Steamship Company before being laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Beaumont, Texas. It was sold for scrap in 1967.[2]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "North Carolina Shipbuilding". shipbuildinghistory.com. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
- ^ "Joseph Hewes". MARAD Vessel History Database. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
- Liberty ships
- Ships built in Wilmington, North Carolina
- 1942 ships
- Liberty ship stubs