SS Zebulon B. Vance
SS Zebulon B. Vance on the ways at North Carolina Shipbuilding Company before launching
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Zebulon B. Vance |
Namesake | Zebulon Vance |
Builder | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina |
Yard number | 1 |
Way number | 1 |
Laid down | 22 May 1941 |
Launched | 6 December 1941 |
Commissioned | July 1944 |
Decommissioned | January 1946 |
Renamed | USAHS John J. Meany |
Honors and awards | battle star |
Fate | Scrapped, 1970 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Liberty ship |
Tonnage | 7,000 long tons deadweight (DWT) |
Length | 441 ft 6 in (134.57 m) |
Beam | 56 ft 11 in (17.35 m) |
Draft | 27 ft 9 in (8.46 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
Capacity | 9,140 tons cargo |
Complement | 41 |
Armament |
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SS Zebulon Vance (
The ship was laid down by North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in their Cape Fear River yard on May 22, 1941, then launched on December 6, 1941.[1] Alice Broughton, wife of sitting governor J. Melville Broughton christened the ship at launch.[2]
Zebulon Vance was assigned to
John J. Meany served in the Mediterranean from August to December 1945 and was decommissioned in January 1946 following the end of the war. It was modified and renamed USAT Zebulon B. Vance, carrying military dependents between the United States and Europe until December 10, 1948 when it was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet James River Fleet. Declared surplus September 16, 1949 it was sold for scrapping to an Italian company in February 1970.[5]
Awards
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References
- ^ "North Carolina Shipbuilding". shipbuildinghistory.com. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
- ^ "S.S. Zebulon B. Vance on Cape Fear River, December 6, 1941". Cape Fear Museum. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
- ^ "USAT Zebulon B. Vance". NavSource Online. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
- ^ Larson, Harold (1944). Army Hospital Ships in WWII. Office of the Chief of Transportation. pp. 48. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
- ^ "USAT Zebulon B. Vance". NavSource Online. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
- ^ "U.S. Merchant Marine Ships whose Naval Armed Guard crews earned "Battle Stars" in World War II - Ships with names "N to Z"". American Merchant Marine at War. Retrieved 2019-01-09.