SS Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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SS Augustus Saint-Gaudens was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Augustus Saint-Gaudens, a Beaux-Arts sculptor that embodied the ideals of the "American Renaissance", designer of the Saint-Gaudens double eagle, and founder of the "Cornish Colony".
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Name | Augustus Saint-Gaudens |
Namesake | Augustus Saint-Gaudens |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | Black Diamond Steamship Co. |
Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 1549 |
Builder | J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida |
Cost | $1,350,923[1] |
Yard number | 31 |
Way number | 3 |
Laid down | 20 December 1943 |
Launched | 17 February 1944 |
Completed | 30 March 1944 |
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Italy | |
Name | Nazareno |
Owner | Societe Coop di Navigazione Resp. Ltda., Genoa, Italy |
Acquired | 27 May 1947 |
Fate | Sold, 1948 |
Italy | |
Owner | Garibaldi Societe Coop di Navigazione Resp. Ltda., Genoa, Italy |
Acquired | 1948 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1967 |
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Beam | 57 feet (17 m) |
Draft | 27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m) |
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Speed | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
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