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Name | Andrew Turnbull |
Namesake | Andrew Turnbull |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | Wessel Duval & Company |
Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 1222 |
Builder | St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida [1] |
Cost | $1,387,226 [2] |
Yard number | 30 |
Way number | 6 |
Laid down | 15 December 1943 |
Launched | 8 February 1944 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. James C. Merrill, Jr. |
Completed | 19 February 1944 |
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Beam | 57 feet (17 m) |
Draft | 27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m) |
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Speed | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
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SS Andrew Turnbull was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Andrew Turnbull, a Scottish physician who later served as a British Consul at Smyrna, then part of the Ottoman Empire, in what is now Turkey. In 1768, he organized the largest attempt at British colonization in the New World by founding New Smyrna, Florida, named in honor of his wife's birthplace.
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