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SS Fred Herrling

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SS Fred Herrling
Career (United States)
Name: Fred Herrling
Namesake: Fred Herrling
Owner: War Shipping Administration (WSA)
Operator: R.A. Nichol & Company
Ordered: as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 2517
Awarded: 23 April 1943
Builder: St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida[1]
Cost: $1,174,299[2]
Yard number: 81
Way number: 4
Laid down: 23 December 1944
Launched: 30 January 1945
Sponsored by: Mrs. Kenneth Jones
Completed: 10 February 1945
Identification:
Fate: Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Wilmington, North Carolina, 17 August 1948
Status: Sold for scrapping, 4 April 1968, withdrawn from fleet, 14 May 1968
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 Hamilton Engine Co., Hamilton, Ohio)
  • 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 Fred Herrling was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Fred Herrling, a Merchant seaman killed on the cargo ship SS Alaskan, 28 November 1942, when she was struck and sunk by a torpedo from German submarine U-172.[4]

    Construction[]

    Fred Herrling was laid down on 23 December 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2517, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored by Mrs. Kenneth Jones, the niece of the namesake, and she was launched on 30 January 1945.[1][2]

    History[]

    She was allocated to the R.A. Nichol & Company, on 10 February 1945. On 17 August 1948, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Wilmington, North Carolina. She was sold for scrapping, 4 April 1968, to Union Minerals & Alloys Corp.. She was removed from the fleet, 14 May 1968.[5]

    References[]

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 St. John's River SBC 2010.
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 MARCOM.
    3. ↑ Davies 2004, p. 23.
    4. ↑ Uboat.
    5. ↑ MARAD.

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