Category:Liberator (ship, 1918)

Ship[edit]

• Type: General cargo ship, USSB design 1057
• Built by: Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco (formerly Union Iron Works)
• Yard No: 151
• Keel laid:
• Launched: 1918.03.24
• Completed: 1918.07
• Length over all: 493 ft
• Beam: 56 ft
• GT: 7720
• DWT:
• www.navsource.org
• shipbuildinghistory.com
• shipbuildinghistory.com
• www.history.navy.mil

History[edit]

• Built as Wichita
• 1918 Named Liberator; Flag: United States
  • Official number: 216541
  • USSB#: 1221
  • Owner: U.S. Shipping Board
• 1918.07 Renamed USS Liberator (ID 3134); Flag: United States
  • Owner: U.S. Navy
• 1919.10 Renamed Liberator; Flag: United States
  • Code letters: LMCK
  • Port: San Francisco
  • Owner: U.S. Shipping Board
• 1933 Owner: Lykes Brothers Steamship Company
  • Call sign: KRIU
  • Port: Galveston, Texas
• 1942.03.19 Torpedoed and sunk by U-332