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Reciprocating propulsion. MCC contract number MCc 16494. MCE hull number 2451. Builder’s hull number 100. Operator Mississippi Shipping Co., New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Shipyard Delta Shipbuilding Co., New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Date contract 17 June 1943. Contracted delivery date 27 January 1944. Laid down on 24 December 1943. Launched on 17 February 1944. Delivered on 31 March 1944.
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1. EC=Emergency Cargo, 2=between 20,000-29,999 tons deadweight, S=single screw-C1=basic configuration. Puchased by the Dutch government in 1947, renamed Leeghwater, soon renamed Lieve Vrouwekerk, stranded on Vlieland on 26 February 1960, salvaged and in the same year scrapped at Dunston-on-Tyne.
Source
List of completed contracts for the U.S. Maritime Commission (USMC).
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