History | |
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United States | |
Name | Thomas L. Haley |
Namesake | Thomas L. Haley |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 2518 |
Awarded | 23 April 1943 |
Builder | St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida [2] |
Cost | $1,507,429 [1] |
Yard number | 82 |
Way number | 6 |
Laid down | 8 January 1945 |
Launched | 12 February 1945 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Stanley Erwin |
Completed | 24 February 1945 |
Fate | Transferred to Greece, 24 February 1945 |
Greece | |
Name | Spetsae |
Owner | Greece |
Fate | Sold for commercial use, 17 January 1947 |
Greece | |
Name | Captain K. Papazoglou |
Owner |
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Operator |
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Fate | Sold, 1954 |
Greece | |
Name | Pantanassa |
Owner | Efploia Shipping Corp. |
Operator | G. Lemos Bros. |
Fate | Sold, 1961 |
Lebanon | |
Name | Giorgos Tsakiroglou |
Owner |
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Operator |
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Fate | Scrapped, 1969 |
General characteristics [3] | |
Class and type |
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Tonnage | |
Displacement | |
Length | |
Beam | 57 feet (17 m) |
Draft | 27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
Capacity |
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Complement | |
Armament |
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SS Thomas L. Haley was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Thomas L. Haley, a Merchant seaman killed on the Liberty ship SS Julia Ward Howe, 27 January 1943, when she was struck by a torpedo from German submarine U-442. [4]
Thomas L. Haley was laid down on 8 January 1945, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2518, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored by Mrs. Stanley Erwin, the wife of a prominent Jacksonville physician, and she was launched on 12 February 1945. [2] [1]
She was transferred to Greece, under the Lend-Lease program, on 24 February 1945. She was sold for commercial use, 17 January 1947, to Stavros S. Niarchos, for $576,758.66. [5]
History | |
---|---|
United States | |
Name | Thomas L. Haley |
Namesake | Thomas L. Haley |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 2518 |
Awarded | 23 April 1943 |
Builder | St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida [2] |
Cost | $1,507,429 [1] |
Yard number | 82 |
Way number | 6 |
Laid down | 8 January 1945 |
Launched | 12 February 1945 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Stanley Erwin |
Completed | 24 February 1945 |
Fate | Transferred to Greece, 24 February 1945 |
Greece | |
Name | Spetsae |
Owner | Greece |
Fate | Sold for commercial use, 17 January 1947 |
Greece | |
Name | Captain K. Papazoglou |
Owner |
|
Operator |
|
Fate | Sold, 1954 |
Greece | |
Name | Pantanassa |
Owner | Efploia Shipping Corp. |
Operator | G. Lemos Bros. |
Fate | Sold, 1961 |
Lebanon | |
Name | Giorgos Tsakiroglou |
Owner |
|
Operator |
|
Fate | Scrapped, 1969 |
General characteristics [3] | |
Class and type |
|
Tonnage | |
Displacement | |
Length | |
Beam | 57 feet (17 m) |
Draft | 27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m) |
Installed power |
|
Propulsion |
|
Speed | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
Capacity |
|
Complement | |
Armament |
|
SS Thomas L. Haley was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Thomas L. Haley, a Merchant seaman killed on the Liberty ship SS Julia Ward Howe, 27 January 1943, when she was struck by a torpedo from German submarine U-442. [4]
Thomas L. Haley was laid down on 8 January 1945, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2518, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored by Mrs. Stanley Erwin, the wife of a prominent Jacksonville physician, and she was launched on 12 February 1945. [2] [1]
She was transferred to Greece, under the Lend-Lease program, on 24 February 1945. She was sold for commercial use, 17 January 1947, to Stavros S. Niarchos, for $576,758.66. [5]