History | |
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United States | |
Name | Negley D. Cochran |
Namesake | Negley D. Cochran |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | Smith & Johnson Co. |
Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 2492 |
Awarded | 23 April 1943 |
Builder | St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida [1] |
Cost | $1,065,039 [2] |
Yard number | 56 |
Way number | 2 |
Laid down | 19 July 1944 |
Launched | 29 August 1944 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Abraham Hurwitz |
Completed | 10 September 1944 |
Identification | |
Fate | Sold for commercial use, 6 February 1947 |
United States | |
Name | Negley D. Cochran |
Owner | States Marine Corp. |
Fate | Sold, 12 August 1947 |
Panama | |
Name | Global Trader |
Owner | Global Transport, Ltd. |
Fate | Sold, 1947 |
Norway | |
Name | Surna |
Owner | Skibs A/S |
Operator |
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Fate | Sold, 1959 |
Liberia | |
Name | Maringa |
Owner | Namdal Shipping & Trading Co. |
Operator | Carl Aune & Cia |
Fate | Sold, 1960 |
Brazil | |
Name | Maringa |
Owner | Companhia Nav.e Comercio Pan-Americana |
Fate | Sank off Brazil, 16 June 1969 |
General characteristics [3] | |
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Tonnage | |
Displacement | |
Length | |
Beam | 57 feet (17 m) |
Draft | 27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
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SS Negley D. Cochran was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Negley D. Cochran, an American newspaper editor and owner of The Toledo Bee newspaper.
Negley D. Cochran was laid down on 19 July 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2492, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored by Mrs. Abraham Hurwitz, the wife of the editor of the Jacksonville Journal, and was launched on 29 August 1944. [1] [2]
She was allocated to the Smith & Johnson Co., on 10 September 1944. She was sold for commercial use, 6 February 1946, to States Marine Corp., for $558,923.86. After several owner and name changes, on 16 June 1969, named Maringa, she sank off of Brazil at 11°30′S37°15′W / 11.500°S 37.250°W . [4] [5]
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