Category:Alcoa Corsair (ship, 1947)
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Ship
[edit]- Type: Passenger/cargo ship
- Built by: Oregon Shipbuilding, Portland OR
- Yard No: 1137
- Keel laid: 1945.08.11
- Launched: 1946.10.02
- Completed: 1947.04.22
- Length over all: 455.9 ft
- Beam: 62 ft
- GRT: 8481
- Sister ships: Alcoa Cavalier, Alcoa Clipper
- shipbuildinghistory.com
- shipbuildinghistory.com
- shipbuildinghistory.com
- vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov
- catalogs.marinersmuseum.org
History
[edit]- Built as Iredell, an attack freighter (APA-242) Victory ship type VC2-S1-AP7, MC# 866, but cancelled
- 1947 Named Alcoa Corsair; Flag: United States
- Official number: 251177
- Call sign: KASQ
- Port: New York
- Owner: Alcoa S.S. Co., Inc.
- 1960.10.22 Collided with Italian vessel Lorenzo Marcello in Mississippi River in New Orleans, repaired
- 1962.01 Sold to American Bulk Carriers Inc.
- 1962.12 Sold as scrap to Japan
- Renamed Rye for trip to breakers
- 1963 Scrapped
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