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Name | Rufus C. Dawes |
Namesake | Rufus C. Dawes |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | Luckenbach Steamship Co., Inc. |
Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 1204 |
Builder | St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida [1] |
Cost | $2,017,460 [2] |
Yard number | 12 |
Way number | 6 |
Laid down | 31 May 1943 |
Launched | 4 September 1943 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Harry B. Hoyt |
Completed | 18 September 1943 |
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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 Rufus C. Dawes was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Rufus C. Dawes, an American businessman in oil and banking from Ohio. In the 1920s he served as an expert on the commissions to prepare the Dawes Plan and the Young Plan to manage German reparations to the Allies after World War I.
Rufus C. Dawes was laid down on 31 May 1943, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 1204, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored by Mrs. Harry B. Hoyt, sister of the namesake, and launched on 4 September 1943. [1] [2]
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