SS Francisco Coronado

SS Francisco Coronado was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. The ship was named after Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján, a Spanish conquistador who explored the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542. The ship was built at the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company's shipyard at Vancouver, Washington.

SS Francisco Coronado

History
United States
Name	Francisco Coronado
Namesake	Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Operator	Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Company
Builder	Kaiser Shipbuilding Company
Way number	1748
Laid down	18 November 1942
Launched	11 January 1943
Completed	20 January 1943
Decommissioned	March 1962
Fate	Scrapped 1962
General characteristics [1]
Class & type	Liberty ship type EC2-S-C1, standard
Tonnage	10,865 LT DWT 7,176 GRT
Displacement	3,380 long tons (3,434 t) (light) 14,245 long tons (14,474 t) (max)
Length	441 feet 6 inches (135 m) oa 416 feet (127 m) pp 427 feet (130 m) lwl
Beam	57 feet (17 m)
Draft	27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m)
Installed power	2 × Oil fired 450 °F (232 °C) boilers, operating at 220 psi (1,500 kPa) 2,500 hp (1,900 kW)
Propulsion	1 × triple-expansion steam engine,  (manufactured by General Machinery Corp., Hamilton, Ohio) 1 × screw propeller
Speed	11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)
Capacity	562,608 cubic feet (15,931 m3) (grain) 499,573 cubic feet (14,146 m3) (bale)
Complement	38–62 USMM 21–40 USNAG
Armament	Varied by ship Bow-mounted 3-inch (76 mm)/50-caliber gun Stern-mounted 4-inch (102 mm)/50-caliber gun 2–8 × single 20-millimeter (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft (AA) cannons and/or, 2–8 × 37-millimeter (1.46 in) M1 AA guns

Service history

SS Francisco Coronado was ordered by the United States Maritime Commission under contract number 394 from Kaiser Shipbuilding's Vancouver Shipyard as Yard number 42. She was operated by Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Company under charter with the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration. ^{[2][3][4][5][a]} The ship was laid down on 18 November 1942.^[7] She was launched on 5 January 1943^[2] and was completed on 20 January 1943. ^[7]

The ship was sold for demolition to Patapsco Scrap Company on 9 March 1959,^[2] and broken up at Baltimore in March 1962.^[2][3]

Notes

1. Another Kaiser yard, Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, was awarded Maritime Commission contract number 1748, to be named Francisco Coronado (Yard number 674), but this contract was cancelled.^[6]