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United States | |
Name | Louis Bamberger |
Namesake | Louis Bamberger |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company |
Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 2508 |
Awarded | 23 April 1943 |
Builder | St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida [1] |
Cost | $961,486 [2] |
Yard number | 72 |
Way number | 6 |
Laid down | 28 October 1944 |
Launched | 29 November 1944 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. George H. Barber |
Completed | 8 December 1944 |
Identification | |
Fate | Sold for commercial use, 31 October 1947 |
United States | |
Name | Horace Irvine |
Owner | Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company |
Fate | Sold, 1968 |
Panama | |
Name | Reliance Amity |
Owner | Reliance Carriers, SA |
Operator | Hongkong Maritime Co. |
Fate | Scrapped, 1971 |
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Length | |
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 Louis Bamberger was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Louis Bamberger, a businessman and philanthropist, noted for co-founding, with his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
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