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SS Louis Bamberger
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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
Identification:
Status: Sold for commercial use, 31 October 1947
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Name: Horace Irvine
Owner: Weyerhaeuser Steamship Co.
Fate: Sold, 1968
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Name: Reliance Amity
Owner: Reliance Carriers, SA
Operator: Hongkong Maritime Co.
Fate: Scrapped, 1971
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 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]

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