War Shipping Administration (1943–1944), Żegluga Polska (1944–onwards)
Builder
Pennsylvania Shipyards, Inc, Beaumont, Texas
Launched
September 1943
Completed
1943
In service
11 March 1944
Out of service
5/6 March 1946
Fate
Sunk after collision with the steamer Lombardy
General characteristics
Class and type
Type N3-S-A2
Tonnage
1,752 GRT
990 NRT
2,905 DWT
Length
250 ft (76 m)
Beam
41.3 ft (12.6 m)
Draft
20 ft 9 in (6.32 m)
Depth
20.4 ft (6.2 m)
Decks
1
Installed power
1,300 SHP
Propulsion
6-cylinder steam engine
Speed
10.2 knots (18.9 km/h)
Range
4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km)
Crew
26 (in Polish service)
Sensors and processing systems
direction finding equipment;
echo sounding equipment
SS Kielce was a Polish-operated cargo ship. She was a Type N3-S-A2 steamship, built in the United States in 1943 as SS Edgar Wakeman.
In 1946, while laden with a cargo of munitions, she sank in the English Channel after colliding with the British or French steamer Lombardy.[1]
In 1967, an attempt to salvage her wreck inadvertently detonated some of her cargo; the resulting explosion was measured to be equivalent in force to a minor earthquake.
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