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SS Edwin G. Weed
Career (United States) US flag 48 stars
Name: Edwin G. Weed
Namesake: Edwin G. Weed
Owner: War Shipping Administration (WSA)
Operator: South Atlantic Steamship Lines, Inc.
Ordered: as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 1221
Builder: St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida[1]
Cost: $1,405,336[2]
Yard number: 29
Way number: 5
Laid down: 7 December 1943
Launched: 29 January 1944
Sponsored by: Miss Margaret G. Weed
Completed: 11 February 1944
Identification:
Fate: Laid up in the, Hudson River Reserve Fleet, Jones Point, New York, 27 May 1946
Status: Sold to Italy, 27 December 1946, removed from fleet, 3 January 1947
Career (Italy) Civil Ensign of Italy
Name: Eugenio C.
Owner: Giacomo Costa fu Andrea
Fate: Sold, 1963
Career (Liberia) Flag of Liberia
Name: Aris
Owner: Transatlantic Transport Corp
Fate: Scrapped, 1967
General characteristics [3]
Class & type:
  • Liberty ship
  • type EC2-S-C1, standard
Tonnage:
  • 10,865 LT DWT
  • 7,176 GRT
  • Displacement:
  • 3,380 long tons (3,434 t) (light)
  • 14,245 long tons (14,474 t) (max)
  • Length: 441 ft 6 in (135 m)
    Beam: 56 ft 10.75 in (17.3419 m)
    Draft: 27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m)
    Installed power:
    • 2 × Oil fired 450 °F (232 °C) boilers, operating at 220 psi (1,500 kPa)
    • 2,500 hp (1,900 kW)
    Propulsion:
  • 2 × oil-fired boilers
  • 1 × triple-expansion steam engine, 2,500 horsepower (1,900 kW) (manufactured by Filer & Stowell Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
  • 1 × screw propeller
  • Speed: 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h)
    Capacity: 10,800 long tons deadweight (DWT)
    Complement: 41
    Armament:
    • Stern-mounted 4"/50 caliber (102 mm) gun for use against surfaced submarines
    • variety of anti-aircraft guns

    SS Edwin G. Weed was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Edwin G. Weed, the third bishop of Florida in the Episcopal Church.

    Construction[]

    Edwin G. Weed was laid down on 7 December 1943, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 1221, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored by Miss Margaret G. Weed, the sister of the namesake, and was launched on 29 January 1944.[1][2]

    History[]

    She was allocated to the South Atlantic Steamship Lines, Inc., on 11 February 1944. On 27 May 1946, she was laid up in the Hudson River Reserve Fleet, Jones Point, New York. She was sold, 27 December 1946, to Italy, for $544,506, for commercial use. She was removed from the fleet on 3 January 1947. Edwin G. Weed was renamed Eugenio C. in 1947. In 1963, she was sold and named Aris and reflagged for Liberia. She was scrapped in 1967.[4]

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