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Name | Ransom A. Moore |
Namesake | Ransom A. Moore |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | J. H. Winchester & Company, Inc. |
Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 2330 |
Builder | J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida |
Cost | $871,631 [1] |
Yard number | 71 |
Way number | 3 |
Laid down | 18 October 1944 |
Launched | 21 November 1944 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Emmett Assenheimer |
Completed | 30 November 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 Ransom A. Moore was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Ransom A. Moore, an American agronomist and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ransom A. Moore was laid down on 18 October 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2330, by J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida; sponsored by Mrs. Emmett Assenheimer, the wife of the director of Procurement and Expediting, JAJCC, and launched on 21 November 1944. [3] [1]
She was allocated to J. H. Winchester & Company, Inc., 30 November 1944. On 1 October 1948, she was placed in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, in Beaumont, Texas. [4]
She was sold for scrapping, 15 March 1970, to Luria Bros. and Co., Inc., for $41,280. She was withdrawn from the fleet, 15 June 1970. [4]
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