Category:Liberator (ship, 1918)
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Ship
[edit]- Type: General cargo ship, USSB design 1057
- Built by: Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco (formerly Union Iron Works)
- Yard No: 151
- Keel laid:
- Launched: 1918.03.24
- Completed: 1918.07
- Length over all: 493 ft
- Beam: 56 ft
- GT: 7720
- DWT:
- www.navsource.org
- shipbuildinghistory.com
- shipbuildinghistory.com
- www.history.navy.mil
History
[edit]- Built as Wichita
- 1918 Named Liberator; Flag: United States
- Official number: 216541
- USSB#: 1221
- Owner: U.S. Shipping Board
- 1918.07 Renamed USS Liberator (ID 3134); Flag: United States
- Owner: U.S. Navy
- 1919.10 Renamed Liberator; Flag: United States
- Code letters: LMCK
- Port: San Francisco
- Owner: U.S. Shipping Board
- 1933 Owner: Lykes Brothers Steamship Company
- Call sign: KRIU
- Port: Galveston, Texas
- 1942.03.19 Torpedoed and sunk by U-332
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