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Career (United States) | |
Name: | Louis Bamberger |
Namesake: | Louis Bamberger |
Owner: | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator: | Weyerhaeuser Steamship Co. |
Ordered: | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 2508 |
Awarded: | 23 April 1943 |
Builder: | St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida[1] |
Cost: | $961,486[2] |
Yard number: | 72 |
Way number: | 6 |
Laid down: | 28 October 1944 |
Launched: | 29 November 1944 |
Sponsored by: | Mrs. George H. Barber |
Completed: | 8 December 1944 |
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Status: | Sold for commercial use, 31 October 1947 |
Career (United States) | |
Name: | Horace Irvine |
Owner: | Weyerhaeuser Steamship Co. |
Fate: | Sold, 1968 |
Career (Panama) | ![]() |
Name: | Reliance Amity |
Owner: | Reliance Carriers, SA |
Operator: | Hongkong Maritime Co. |
Fate: | Scrapped, 1971 |
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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) |
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Speed: | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h) |
Capacity: | 10,800 long tons deadweight (DWT) |
Complement: | 41 |
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SS Louis Bamberger was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Louis Bamberger, a businessman and philanthropist, noted for co-founding, with his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Construction[]
Louis Bamberger was laid down on 28 October 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2508, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored by Mrs. George H. Barber, the wife of a War Shipping Administration (WSA) official, and was launched on 29 November 1944.[1][2]
History[]
She was allocated to the Weyerhaeuser Steamship Co., on 31 October 1944. She was sold for commercial use, 31 October 1947, to Weyerhaeuser Steamship Co.[4]
References[]
Bibliography[]
- "St. John's River Shipbuilding, Jacksonville FL". www.ShipbuildingHistory.com. 16 October 2010. http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/emergencylarge/stjohnsriver.htm.
- Maritime Administration. "Louis Bamberger". Ship History Database Vessel Status Card. U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration. https://vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/9210.
- Davies, James (May 2004). "Specifications (As-Built)". p. 23. http://www.ww2ships.com/acrobat/us-os-001-f-r00.pdf.
- "SS Louis Bamberger". http://usmaritimecommission.de/query.php?datalist=1&typeofquery=Name%20of%20Ship&valueofquery=Louis%20Bamberger&code=B2508a.
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