SS Samuel Ashe

History
United States
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
Displacement:
  • 4,023 long tons (4,088 t) (standard)
  • 14,550 long tons (14,780 t) (full load)
Length: 441 ft 6 in (134.57 m)
Beam: 56 ft 11 in (17.35 m)
Draft: 28 ft 4 in (8.64 m)
Installed power:
  • 1 × Header-type boilers, 220psi 450°,  (manufactured by Babcock & Wilcox)
  • 2,500 shp (1,900 kW)
Propulsion:
Speed: 12.5 kn (14.4 mph; 23.2 km/h)
Capacity:
  • 7,800 t (7,700 long tons) DWT
  • 444,206 cu ft (12,578.5 m3) (non-refrigerated)
Complement: 205
Armament:

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.

References

  1. 1 2 3 S.S. Samuel Ashe at eis.fi
  2. ↑ Kaiser No. 2 2010.
  3. ↑ Navsource 2016.
  4. ↑ "1269th Engineer Combat Battalion - History". psu.edu.

Bibliography


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