North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina
Yard number
15
Way number
3
Laid down
23 May 1942
Launched
19 July 1942
Fate
Sunk 1944
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 × 5 in (130 mm) deck gun, 1 x 3-inch/50-caliber gun, and 8 x .30 caliber machine guns
SS William Gaston (MC contract 159) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after William Gaston, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina, author of the North Carolina state song, and namesake of Gaston County, North Carolina.
The ship was laid down by North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in their Cape Fear River yard on May 23, 1942, then launched on July 19, 1942.[1] She was operated by the American West Africa Line for the War Shipping Administration.[2]
On July 23, 1944 while traveling between Buenos Aires, Argentina and Baltimore, Maryland Gaston was torpedoed by the German submarine U-861. Two torpedoes struck the vessel ten minutes apart. Gaston rolled over and sank three minutes after the second torpedo without loss of life. The survivors were picked up on July 25, 1944 by USS Matagorda and taken to Florianópolis, Brazil.[3][4]
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rescued the entire crew of 67 men from the American merchant ship SSWilliamGaston, torpedoed by a German submarine late on 23 July 1944 off the Brazilian...
zapotecocaribaea Guzmán, Ram.-Guill. & T.J. Baroni Psilocybe zapotecorum Gastón Guzmán, John W. Allen, Jochen Gartz (1998). "A worldwide geographical distribution...
1908 – 5 July 1975) was an Austrian-born German SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) in the Waffen-SS during World War II. During the war, he was involved...
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his wife, as Harding apparently had been unfaithful to the first lady. Gaston B. Means, an amateur historian and gadfly, noted in his book The Strange...
from the original on April 15, 2012. Retrieved 2012-12-22. Kunin, W.E.; Gaston, Kevin, eds. (31 December 1996). The Biology of Rarity: Causes and consequences...
as the Belgian Army and the British Expeditionary Force. Général d'armée Gaston Billotte was Commander-in-Chief until his death in a car crash on 23 May...
photojournalist. Covered conflicts in: Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan war. Gaston Chérau (Niort (France) 1872 - Boston (USA) 1937). French war correspondent...
and had no strategic reserves. On 19 May, Gort met with French General Gaston Billotte, commander of the French First Army and overall coordinator of...
until 1859, with the invention of the lead–acid battery by French physicist Gaston Planté. Camille Alphonse Faure, another French scientist, significantly...
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chronograph. In 1915, Gaston Breitling produced the first chronograph with a central seconds hand and a 30-minute counter. Later, in 1923, Gaston Breitling introduced...
Society. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-6518-7. Hoisington, William A. (1970). "Class Against Class: The French Communist Party and the Comintern:...
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