North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina
Yard number
26
Way number
7
Laid down
22 September 1941
Launched
29 March 1942
Fate
Sold for scrap 1967
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
AA guns
SS Joseph Hewes (MC contract 217) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Joseph Hewes, Secretary of the Naval Affairs in the 2nd Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence for North Carolina.
The ship was laid down by North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in their Cape Fear River yard on September 22, 1941, and launched on March 29, 1942.[1] She was chartered to A. H. Bull Steamship Company upon completion in 1942 by the War Shipping Administration. This was renewed in May 1947. In August of that year it was chartered to the States Marine Corporation. It was briefly operated in October 1948 by the South Atlantic Steamship Company before being laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Beaumont, Texas. It was sold for scrap in 1967.[2]
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