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SS Telfair Stockton
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Name: Telfair Stockton
Namesake: Telfair Stockton
Owner: War Shipping Administration (WSA)
Operator: R.A. Nichol & Company
Ordered: as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 2507
Awarded: 23 April 1943
Builder: St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida[1]
Cost: $920.238,[2]
Yard number: 71
Way number: 5
Laid down: 24 October 1944
Launched: 23 November 1944
Completed: 30 November 1944
Identification:
Fate: Laid up in the, National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, California, 30 April 1946
Status: Sold for commercial use, 24 April 1947, removed from fleet, 29 May 1947
Career (United States) Flag of Norway
Name:
  • Telfair Stockton (1947-1949)
  • Eugenie (1949-1956)
  • Transporter (1956)
Owner: Oro Navigation Co.
Operator: General Steamship Corp.
Fate: Sold, February 1956
Career (Liberia) Flag of Liberia
Name: Transporter
Owner:
  • Sea Freighter Corp. (1956-1959)
  • Jackson Steamship Co. (1959-1967)
Operator:
  • Polarus Steamship Co. (1956-1957)
  • Cargo Ships & Tankers Inc. (1957-1959)
  • Suwannee Steamship Co. (1959-1967)
  • Refit: 8,636 GRT
    Fate: Sold, 1967
    Career (Liberia) Flag of Liberia
    Name: Zaneta II
    Owner: Arger Navigation, Ltd.
    Operator: Atlantic Shipping Co.
    Status: Sold, 1968
    Career (Liberia) Flag of Liberia
    Name: Sfakia
    Owner: Ivory Coast Transport Co.
    Operator: Commodity Chartering Corp.
    Fate: Scrapped, 1973

    SS Telfair Stockton was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Telfair Stockton, an American entrepreneur and developer in Jacksonville, Florida.

    Construction[]

    Telfair Stockton was laid down on 24 October 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2507, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; and was launched on 23 November 1944.[1][2]

    History[]

    She was allocated to the R.A. Nichol & Company, on 30 November 1944. On 30 April 1946, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, California. She was sold for commercial use, 24 April 1947, to Oro Navigation Co.. She was withdrawn from the fleet, 29 May 1947[3]

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