North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina
Yard number
51
Way number
6
Laid down
20 November 1942
Launched
22 December 1942
Renamed
Anastassios Pateras
Fate
Scrapped 1968
General characteristics
Type
Liberty ship
Tonnage
7,000 long tons deadweight (DWT)
Length
441 ft 6 in (134.57 m)
Beam
56 ft 11 in (17.35 m)
Draft
27 ft 9 in (8.46 m)
Propulsion
Two oil-fired boilers
Triple expansion steam engine
Single screw
2,500 hp (1,864 kW)
Speed
11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Capacity
9,140 tons cargo
Complement
41
Armament
1 × Stern-mounted 4 in (100 mm) deck gun, at least 1 x Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
AA guns
SS Betty Zane (MC contract 873) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Betty Zane, a frontier heroine of the American Revolutionary War and ancestor of author Zane Grey.
The ship was laid down by North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in their Cape Fear River yard on November 20, 1942, then launched on December 22, 1942.[1]Zane was operated by the States Marine Corporation for the War Shipping Administration until December 1946 when she entered the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Wilmington, North Carolina.[2]
In November 1943 while in the Mediterranean Sea she was attacked by numerous German aircraft, downing a Ju 88.[3]Zane was sold to a Greek firm in December 1946 and renamed Anastassios Pateras. She was scrapped in 1968[4]
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