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Name | Horace H. Lurton |
Namesake | Horace H. Lurton |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | Cosmopolitan Shipping Company |
Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 1500 |
Builder | J.A. Jones Construction, Brunswick, Georgia |
Cost | $1,814,639 [1] |
Yard number | 116 |
Way number | 6 |
Laid down | 12 July 1943 |
Launched | 7 October 1943 |
Completed | 19 October 1943 |
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Fate | Transferred to France, scrapped, June 1968 |
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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 Horace H. Lurton was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Horace H. Lurton, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Horace H. Lurton was laid down on 12 July 1943, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 1500, by J.A. Jones Construction, Brunswick, Georgia, and launched on 7 October 1943. [3]
She was allocated to Cosmopolitan Shipping Company, on 19 October 1943. On 22 October 1946, she was transferred to the French Shipping Mission, on 6 December 1946, she was sold to them for $544,506. She was scrapped in June 1968. [4] [5]