SS Harriet Tubman
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| Name: |
SS Harriet Tubman |
| Namesake: |
Harriet Tubman |
| Builder: |
South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation, South Portland, Maine |
| Yard number: |
3032 |
| Way number: |
6 |
| Laid down: |
19 April 1944 |
| Launched: |
3 June 1944 |
| Fate: |
Scrapped, 1972 |
| General characteristics |
| Type: |
Liberty ship |
| Tonnage: |
7,000 long tons deadweight (DWT) |
| Length: |
441 ft 6 in (134.57 m) |
| Beam: |
56 ft 11 in (17.35 m) |
| Draft: |
27 ft 9 in (8.46 m) |
| Propulsion: |
- Two oil-fired boilers
- Triple expansion steam engine
- Single screw
- 2,500 hp (1,864 kW)
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| Speed: |
11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Capacity: |
9,140 tons cargo |
| Complement: |
41 |
| Armament: |
- 1 × Stern-mounted 4 in (100 mm) deck gun
- AA guns
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SS Harriet Tubman (MC contract 3032) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Harriet Tubman, an African-American freedom fighter during the American Civil War.
The ship was laid down by the South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation, South Portland, Maine, on 19 April 1944, then launched on 3 June 1944. The ship survived the war only to suffer the same fate as nearly all other Liberty ships that survived did; she was scrapped in 1972.[1]
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