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SS Owen Wister
Career (United States)
Name: Owen Wister
Namesake: Owen Wister
Owner: War Shipping Administration (WSA)
Operator: William J. Rountree & Co., Inc.
Ordered: as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 1216
Builder: St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida[1]
Cost: $1,389,365[2]
Yard number: 24
Way number: 6
Laid down: 2 November 1943
Launched: 14 December 1943
Sponsored by: Mrs. William L. Marshall
Completed: 24 December 1943
Identification:
Fate:
  • Laid up in the, National Defense Reserve Fleet, Astoria, Oregon, 22 July 1949
  • Laid up in the, National Defense Reserve Fleet, Astoria, Oregon, 26 June 1952
    • Status: Sold for scrapping, 8 December 1964, removed from fleet, 21 December 1964
    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 Owen Wister was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Owen Wister, an American writer and historian, considered the "father" of western fiction. He is best remembered for writing The Virginian and a biography of Ulysses S. Grant.

    Construction[]

    Owen Wister was laid down on 2 November 1943, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 1216, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored by Mrs. William L. Marshall, the wife of Gulf Coast Regional construction auditor for MARCOM, and was launched on 14 December 1943.[1][2]

    History[]

    She was allocated to William J. Rountree & Co., Inc., on 24 December 1943. On 22 July 1949, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Astoria, Oregon. On 28 June 1954, she was withdrawn from the fleet to be loaded with grain under the "Grain Program 1954", she returned loaded on 17 July 1954. On 3 November 1956, she was withdrawn to be unload, she returned on empty 9 November 1956. She was sold for scrapping, 8 December 1964, to Zidell Explorations, Inc., for $156,006.66, which included her sister ships SS Robert E. Clarkson and SS William C. Endicott. She was removed from the fleet on 21 December 1964.[4]

    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. ↑ MARAD.

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