North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina
Yard number
48
Way number
3
Laid down
6 November 1942
Launched
10 December 1942
Fate
Sunk 1943
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
69
Armament
1 × Stern-mounted 4 in (100 mm) deck gun
9 x 20mm AA guns
SS Richard Caswell (MC contract 870) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Richard Caswell, the first Governor of North Carolina, member of the Continental Congress, militia officer in the War of the Regulation and the American Revolutionary War. She was operated by the South Atlantic Steamship Company under charter with the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration.
The ship was laid down by North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in their Cape Fear River yard on November 6, 1942, and launched on December 10, 1942.[1][2]
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Renaissance Festival Books. British Library. Retrieved 30 November 2015. Caswell 1977. "Brief History (timeline)", AI Topics, Association for the Advancement...
16 September 2020. doi:10.3310/alert_41179. S2CID 242429298. Wilson E, Caswell G, Latif A, Anderson C, Faull C, Pollock K (May 2020). "An exploration...
second job. In early 1964, the Seekers sailed to the United Kingdom on the S.S. Fairsky, on which the group provided the musical entertainment. Originally...
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existing in Brown University, its professors and graduates. Providence, R.I.: S.S. Rider. OCLC 1038137370. Bronson, Walter Cochrane (1914). The History of...
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Craggs for the government and Blunt, Cashier Knight and his assistant and Caswell. Janssen, the Sub Governor and Deputy Governor were also consulted but...
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