SS Richard K. Call
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| Name: | SS Richard K. Call |
| Namesake: | Richard K. Call |
| Builder: | St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida |
| Yard number: | 37 |
| Way number: | 1 |
| Laid down: | 21 February 1944 |
| Launched: | 15 April 1944 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1970 |
| 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) |
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| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Capacity: | 9,140 tons cargo |
| Complement: | 41 |
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SS Richard K. Call (MC contract 2473) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Richard Keith Call, territorial governor of Florida.
The ship was laid down by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida, on February 21, 1944, then launched on April 15, 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 1970.[1]
References
- ↑ "St. Johns River Shipbuilding". www.shipbuildinghistory.com. Retrieved 2009-12-16.
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