SS Salvador Brau
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SS Salvador Brau was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Salvador Brau, a journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist, historian, and sociologist. He was designated the official historian of Puerto Rico in 1903, by the first American-appointed governor William Henry Hunt.
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Name | Salvador Brau |
Namesake | Salvador Brau |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | William J. Rountree Company |
Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 1543 |
Builder | J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida |
Cost | $1,306,833[1] |
Yard number | 25 |
Way number | 3 |
Laid down | 8 November 1943 |
Launched | 15 December 1943 |
Completed | 31 January 1944 |
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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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