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SS William Few
Career (United States) US flag 48 stars
Name: William Few
Namesake: William Few
Owner: War Shipping Administration (WSA)
Operator: Merchant & Miners Transportation Co.
Ordered: as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MCE hull 309
Awarded: 1 May 1941
Builder: Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland[1]
Cost: $1,071,549[2]
Yard number: 2059
Way number: 5
Laid down: 14 July 1942
Launched: 28 August 1942
Sponsored by: Mrs. Frank Egan
Completed: 10 September 1942
Identification:
Fate: Sold for commercial use, 30 December 1946
Career (Honduras) Flag of Honduras
Name: Norlandia
Owner:
  • Compañia Navegacion de Vapores (1947—1950)
  • Silet Compañia de Vapores (1950—)
Operator:
  • Simpson, Spence & Young (1947)
  • North American Shipping & Trading Co. (1947—1954)
  • International Navigation Co.
    • Fate: reflagged 1961
    Career (Greece) Flag of Greece
    Name: Norlandia
    Owner: Silet Compañia de Vapores
    Fate: reflagged 1967
    Career (Panama) Flag of Panama
    Name: Norlandia
    Owner: Silet Compañia de Vapores
    Fate: Scrapped, 1969
    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 Ellicott Machine Corp., Baltimore, Maryland)
  • 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 William Few was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after William Few, an American politician, farmer, businessman, and a Founding Father of the United States. Few represented the US state of Georgia at the Constitutional Convention and signed the United States Constitution. Few, along with James Gunn, were the first Senators from Georgia.

    Construction[]

    William Few was laid down on 14 July 1942, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MCE hull 309, by the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland; she was sponsored by Mrs. Frank Egan, the daughter J. Kirkpatrick, the chief hull inspector for MARCOM, in Philadelphia, and was launched on 28 August 1942.[1][2]

    History[]

    She was allocated to Merchant & Miners Transportation Co., on 10 September 1942. On 30 December 1946, she was sold for commercial use to Compañia Navegacion de Vapores, for $544,506. She was scrapped in Osaka, in 1969.[4]

    References[]

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards 2008.
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 MARCOM.
    3. ↑ Davies 2004, p. 23.
    4. ↑ MARAD.

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