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SS Ponce De Leon

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SS Ponce De Leon
Career (United States)
Name: Ponce De Leon
Namesake: Ponce De Leon
Owner: War Shipping Administration (WSA)
Operator: Waterman Steamship Corp.
Ordered: as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 1193
Builder: St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida[1]
Cost: $2,680,640[2]
Yard number: 1
Way number: 1
Laid down: 15 August 1942
Launched: 14 March 1943
Sponsored by: Mrs. J.C. Merrill
Completed: 30 April 1943
Identification:
Fate: Laid up in the, National Defense Reserve Fleet, Mobile, Alabama, 11 April 1947
Status: Sold for scrapping, 10 September 1962, removed from fleet, 9 October 1962
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 Ponce De Leon was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Ponce De Leon, a Spanish explorer and conquistador known for leading the first official European expedition to Florida and the first governor of Puerto Rico.

    Construction[]

    Ponce De Leon was laid down on 15 August 1942, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 1193, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored by Mrs. J.C. Merrill, the wife of the president of the St. John's River SB Corp., she was launched on 14 March 1943.[1][2]

    History[]

    She was allocated to Waterman Steamship Corp., on 30 April 1943. On 11 April 1947, she was laid up in the, National Defense Reserve Fleet, Mobile, Alabama. She was sold for scrapping, on 10 September 1962, to Gulf Shipyard Industrial Park Co., for $49,799. She was removed from the fleet on 9 October 1962.[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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