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SS Thomas L. Haley
Career (United States) US flag 48 stars
Name: Thomas L. Haley
Namesake: Thomas L. Haley
Owner: War Shipping Administration (WSA)
Ordered: as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 2518
Awarded: 23 April 1943
Builder: St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida[1]
Cost: $1,507,429[2]
Yard number: 82
Way number: 6
Laid down: 8 January 1945
Launched: 12 February 1945
Sponsored by: Mrs. Stanley Erwin
Completed: 24 February 1945
Fate: Transferred to Greece, 24 February 1945
Career (Greece) Flag of Greece
Name: Spetsae
Owner: Greece
Fate: Sold for commercial use, 17 January 1947
Career (Greece) Flag of Greece
Name: Captain K. Papazoglou
Owner:
  • Stavros S. Niarchos (1947)
  • N. Coumantaros (1947-1949)
  • Stavros S. Niarchos (1949-1954)
Operator:
  • Union Maritime & Shipping Co. (1948-1949)
  • Simpson, Spence & Young (1949-1952)
  • North American Shipping & Trading Co. (1952-1954)
  • Fate: Sold, 1954
    Career (Greece) Flag of Greece
    Name: Pantanassa
    Owner: Efploia Shipping Corp.
    Operator: G. Lemos Bros.
    Fate: Sold, 1961
    Career (Lebanon) Flag of Lebanon
    Name: Giorgos Tsakiroglou
    Owner:
    • Eftychia Cia. Nav. (1961-1964)
    • Efthia Cia. Nav. (1964-1969)
    Operator:
  • Franco Shipping Co. (1961-1964)
  • Carapanayoti & Co. (1964-1968)
  • Shipping & Produce Co. (1968-1969)
  • Fate: Scrapped, 1969

    SS Thomas L. Haley was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Thomas L. Haley, a Merchant seaman killed on the Liberty ship SS Julia Ward Howe, 27 January 1943, when she was struck by a torpedo from German submarine U-442.[3]

    Construction[]

    Thomas L. Haley was laid down on 8 January 1945, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2518, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored by Mrs. Stanley Erwin, the wife of a prominent Jacksonville physician, and she was launched on 12 February 1945.[1][2]

    History[]

    She was transferred to Greece, under the Lend-Lease program, on 24 February 1945. She was sold for commercial use, 17 January 1947, to Stavros S. Niarchos, for $576,758.66.[4]

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