SS Richard Bassett
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SS Richard Bassett was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Founding Father Richard Bassett, a Delaware attorney and politician, veteran of the American Revolutionary War, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, signer of the United States Constitution, United States Senator from Delaware, Chief Justice of the Delaware Court of Common Pleas, Governor of Delaware and a United States circuit judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Third Circuit. He holds the overall seniority position of #1 in the history of the United States Senate.
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Name | Richard Bassett |
Namesake | Richard Bassett |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | A. H. Bull Steamship Company |
Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MCE hull 41 |
Awarded | 14 March 1941 |
Builder | Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland[1] |
Cost | $1,056,089[2] |
Yard number | 2028 |
Way number | 3 |
Laid down | 18 March 1942 |
Launched | 22 May 1942 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. J.F. McInnis |
Completed | 13 June 1942 |
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Fate | Sold for commercial use, 26 March 1947 |
United States | |
Name | Carolyn |
Owner | Baltimore Insular Line |
Operator | A.H. Bull & Co., Inc. |
Fate | Exchanged to Maritime Administration (MARAD), 29 August 1961 |
United States | |
Name | Carolyn |
Owner | Maritime Administration |
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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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