SS Samuel Ashe
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Name: | Samuel Ashe |
Namesake: | North Carolina governor Samuel Ashe |
Ordered: | as a Type EC2-S-C1 hull, MCE hull 164[1] |
Builder: | Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond, California |
Yard number: | 420[2] |
Laid down: | 12 July 1942 |
Launched: | 17 September 1942 |
Status: | scrapped in Philadelphia, 1970 |
General characteristics [3] | |
Class and type: | Crater-class cargo ship |
Type: | Type EC2-S-C1 |
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Length: | 441 ft 6 in (134.57 m) |
Beam: | 56 ft 11 in (17.35 m) |
Draft: | 28 ft 4 in (8.64 m) |
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Propulsion: |
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Speed: | 12.5 kn (14.4 mph; 23.2 km/h) |
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Complement: | 205 |
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USS Samuel Ashe (AK-70) was a Type C1 EC2-S-C1[1] Crater-class cargo ship in the service of the US Navy in World War II. A Liberty ship, she was named after 18th century North Carolina governor Samuel Ashe.
Construction
Samuel Ashe was laid down 17 July 1942, as a Type C1 EC2-S-C1[1] Crater-class cargo ship under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 164, by Permanente Metals Corporation, Yard No. 2, Richmond, California. She was launched 17 September 1942, and transferred to the U.S. Navy.
Service history
Samuel Ashe served in the European Theatre of World War II.
Among her missions was repatriating part of the U.S. 1269th Engineer Combat Battalion stateside from Antwerp in August, 1945.[4]
Final disposition
Samuel Ashe was scrapped in Philadelphia in 1970.
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