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SS Irvin S. Cobb
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Name: Irvin S. Cobb
Namesake: Irvin S. Cobb
Owner: War Shipping Administration (WSA)
Operator: Seas Shipping Co., Inc.
Ordered: as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 2491
Awarded: 23 April 1943
Builder: St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida[1]
Cost: $1,050,663[2]
Yard number: 55
Way number: 1
Laid down: 13 July 1944
Launched: 22 August 1944
Sponsored by: Ruth Alexander
Completed: 31 August 1944
Identification:
Fate: Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Mobile, Alabama, 15 July 1949
Status: Sold for scrapping, 6 July 1967, withdrawn from fleet, 18 July 1967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 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 Irvin S. Cobb was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Irvin S. Cobb, an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky.

    Construction[]

    Irvin S. Cobb was laid down on 13 July 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2491, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored by Ruth Alexander, the wife of H.F. Alexander, and friend of the namesake, and was launched on 22 August 1944.[1][2]

    History[]

    She was allocated to the Seas Shipping Co., Inc., on 31 August 1944. On 15 July 1949, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Mobile, Alabama. She was sold for scrapping, 13 May 1970, to Union Minerals & Alloys, Corp., along with SS John S. Pillsbury, for $90,260. She was removed from the fleet, 18 July 1967.[4]

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