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SS Grant Wood
Career (United States) US flag 48 stars
Name: Grant Wood
Namesake: Grant Wood
Owner: War Shipping Administration (WSA)
Operator: American Export Lines, Inc.
Ordered: as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 1208
Builder: St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida[1]
Cost: $1,601,410[2]
Yard number: 16
Way number: 4
Laid down: 6 August 1943
Launched: 14 October 1943
Sponsored by: Mrs. Joseph W. Shands
Completed: 26 October 1943
Identification:
Fate: Laid up in the, James River Reserve Fleet, Lee Hall, Virginia, 15 June 1946
Status: Sold for commercial use, 4 March 1947, removed from fleet, 12 March 1947
Career (Italy) Civil Ensign of Italy
Name: Prsolina
Namesake: Prsolina
Owner:
  • Societa M. Bottiglieri (1947–1948)
  • Vincenzo Bottiglieri (1948–1949)
  • Michele Bottiglieri (1949–1951)
  • Giovanni Bottiglieri (1951–1970)
Status: Sold for Scrapping, 1970
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 Grant Wood was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Grant Wood, an American painter best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly American Gothic.

    Construction[]

    Grant Wood was laid down on 6 August 1943, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 1208, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored by Mrs. Joseph W. Shands, of Jacksonville, and was launched on 14 October 1943.[1][2]

    History[]

    She was allocated to American Export Lines, Inc., on 26 October 1943. On 15 June 1946, she was laid up in the James River Reserve Fleet, Lee Hall, Virginia. She was sold for commercial use, 4 March 1947, to the government of Italy, for $544,506. She was removed from the fleet on 12 March 1947. Grant Wood was renamed Prsolina and reflagged in Italy.[4]

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