Liberty Ships
built for U. S. Maritime Commission 1941-1945 by:
New England Shipbuilding Corporation, South Portland Maine
South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation, South Portland Maine
Rheem Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island
Walsh-Kaiser Company, Providence, Rhode Island
WSAT stands for War Shipping
Administration Transport; the number in parentheses shows the number of troops
the ship could hold.
USAT stands for Army Transportation Service, and indicates the ship was
chartered or operated by ATS.
AK, AP and similar designations denote US Navy commissioned ships.
The order below approximates the order of construction within the yard.
| New
England Shipbuilding Corporation East Yard West Yard Boxed aircraft carriers |
South
Portland Shipbuilding Corporation East Yard West Yard |
Rheem
Manufacturing Company Walsh-Kaiser Company Walsh-Kaiser took over management of the shipyard from Rheem on direction of the Maritime Commission |
New
England Shipbuilding Corp., East Yard
EC2-S-C1 Type
| Hull # | Name | Designations/names |
| 793 |
George Cleeve | USAT |
| 794 |
Jacob H. Gallinger | USAT |
| 795 |
Sylvester Gardiner [Silvester] |
|
| 796 |
Robert Jordan |
|
| 797 |
Robert Rogers |
|
| 798 |
Ezra Weston | USAT |
| 799 |
Josiah Quincy |
|
| 800 |
William Sturgis |
|
| 2188 |
Sumner I. Kimball |
|
| 2189 |
Robert L. Vann | USAT |
| 2193 |
Omar E. Chapman | USAT |
| 2194 |
George Popham | USAT |
| 2196 |
Barrett Wendell | Completed as Samphill Loan Great Britain |
| 2197 |
William Pitt Preble | Completed as Samrich Loan Great Britain |
| 2199 |
Percy D. Haughton | Completed as Samtrent Loan Great Britain |
| 2200 |
Robert R. Randall |
|
| 2201 |
Mercy Warren |
|
| 2205 |
Webb Miller | USAT |
| 2206 |
George S. Wasson |
|
| 2209 |
Eugene E. O'Donnell | USAT |
| 2210 |
Samdon | Loan Great Britain |
| 2212 |
Samythian | Loan Great Britain |
| 2213 |
Susan Colby |
|
| 2214 |
Samearn | Loan Great Britain |
| 2218 |
Samteviot | Loan Great Britain |
| 2219 |
Sarah Orne Jewett |
|
| 2222 |
Samtyne | Loan Great Britain |
| 2223 |
Samstrae | Loan Great Britain |
| 2224 |
Samderwent | Loan Great Britain |
| 3005 |
Samsperrin | Loan Great Britain |
| 3006 |
Arthur Sewall | USAT |
| 3008 |
Park Benjamin |
|
| 3009 |
Samderry | Loan Great Britain |
| 3012 |
Elijah Kellog | USAT |
| 3013 |
Charles Dauray |
|
| 3016 |
Raymond B. Stevens |
|
| 3017 |
Samwake | Loan Great Britain |
| 3018 |
Samoresby | Loan Great Britain |
| 3021 |
Samsuva | Loan Great Britain |
| 3022 |
Samidway | Loan Great Britain |
| 3024 |
Samsmola | Loan Great Britain |
| 3025 |
George Hawley |
|
| 3029 |
Joseph Augustin Chevalier |
|
| 3030 |
William Leavitt |
|
| 3031 |
Lot Morrill | Completed as Miaoulis |
| 3034 |
Thomas H. Sumner |
|
| 3035 |
Joseph C. Lincoln |
|
| 3037 |
George L. Farley |
|
| 3038 |
Andrew J. Newbury | USAT YAG |
| 3042 |
Lot M. Morrill |
|
| 3043 |
Joseph N. Dinand |
|
| 3044 |
Harold I. Pratt |
|
| 3047 |
Thomas Bradlee |
|
| 3048 |
William Tyler |
|
| 3051 |
Archibald R. Mansfield |
|
| 3052 |
Galen L. Stone |
|
| 3056 |
Robert B. Forbes |
|
| 3057 |
Frank P. Reed |
|
| 3058 |
Michael Anagnos |
|
| 3060 |
Loammi Baldwin |
|
| 3061 |
James T. Fields |
|
| 3064 |
Charles Tufts |
|
| 3065 |
Kenyon L. Butterfield | USAT |
| 3069 |
Winthrop L. Marvin |
|
| 3070 |
Belle Isle | AG 73 |
| 3071 |
Liguria | AKS 15 |
| 3073 |
Coasters Harbor | AG 74 |
| 3074 |
Edmond Mallet |
|
| 3077 |
Thomas F. Meagher |
|
| 3078 |
Joseph Lee |
|
| 3082 |
Joshua Slocum |
|
| 3083 |
Julia P. Shaw |
|
| 3084 |
Paul Buck |
|
| 3086 |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
|
| 3087 |
Ezra Meech | USAT |
| 3090 |
Leon S. Merrill | USAT |
| 3091 |
Francis A. Retka |
|
| 3095 |
William Bevan |
|
| 3096 |
Charles N. Cole |
|
| 3097 |
George A. Lawson |
|
| 3099 |
Richard D. Lyons |
|
| 3100 |
George N. Drake | Completed as Carl Oftedal |
| 3102 |
Lawrence T. Sullivan | Completed as Belgian Amity Loan Belgium; USAT |
| 3103 |
Joseph Carrigan |
|
| 3107 |
Elwin F. Knowles |
|
| 3108 |
Ernest L. Dawson |
|
| 3109 |
Oliver Westover |
|
| 3112 |
Allen G. Collins |
|
| 3113 |
John Robert Gordon |
|
| 3115 |
Harold H. Brown |
|
| 3116 |
Stanley R. Fisher |
|
| 3118 |
Frederick Austin | Completed as Dodekanesos |
New
England Shipbuilding Corp., West Yard
EC2-S-C1 Type
WSAT stands for War Shipping
Administration Transport; the number in parentheses shows the number of troops
the ship could hold.
USAT stands for Army Transportation Service, and indicates the ship was
chartered or operated by ATS.
AK, AP and similar designations denote US Navy commissioned ships.
The order below approximates the order of construction within the yard.
| Hull # | Name | Designations/names |
| 214 |
John Sullivan | WSAT (550) USAT |
| 215 |
John Chandler |
|
| 216 |
John Holmes |
|
| 339 |
Emily Dickinson | USAT |
| 340 |
Eugene Field |
|
| 801 |
Thomas W. Hyde | WSAT (550) USAT |
| 802 |
George F. Patten |
|
| 803 |
William Pepperell | USAT |
| 804 |
Thomas B. Reed |
|
| 805 |
Joshua L. Chamberlain |
|
| 806 |
Jeremiah O'Brien | USAT |
| 807 |
John A. Poor |
|
| 808 |
Harry A. Garfield | Belgian Dynasty |
| 809 |
Arthur L. Perry |
|
| 810 |
Nelson Dingley |
|
| 811 |
James Bowdoin | USAT |
| 812 |
Henry Jocelyn |
|
| 813 |
Bartholomew Gosnold |
|
| 816 |
Anna Howard Shaw |
|
| 817 |
Tobias Lear | Completed as Fort Orange USAT |
| 818 |
William H. Todd | Completed as Ameriki |
| 819 |
John N. Robins |
|
| 822 |
Thomas Clyde | USAT |
| 825 |
Enoch Train | USAT |
| 826 |
William Blackstone | Completed as Samtucky Loan Great Britain |
| 2190 |
Jeremiah L. Chaplin | Completed as Samakron Loan Great Britain |
| 2191 |
Elias H. Derby | Completed as Samlong Loan Great Britain |
| 2192 |
Mary Wilkins Freeman |
|
| 2195 |
J. Willard Gibbs |
|
| 2198 |
James Manning |
|
| 2202 |
Charles A. Young | Completed as Samspring Loan Great Britain |
| 2203 |
Peleg Wadsworth | Completed as Samtampa Loan Great Britain |
| 2204 |
Bronson Alcott | Completed as Samavon Loan Great Britain |
| 2207 |
Edward Kavanagh | |
| 2208 |
George T. Angell |
|
| 2211 |
Edward H. Crockett |
|
| 2215 |
Renald Fernald |
|
| 2216 |
Samannan | Loan Great Britain |
| 2217 |
Washington Allston |
|
| 2220 |
Frederick W. Taylor |
|
| 2221 |
Samwye | Loan Great Britain |
| 3004 |
Stanton H. King |
|
| 3007 |
Samdaring | Loan Great Britain |
| 3010 |
Lillian Nordica | USAT |
| 3011 |
Belgian Tenacity |
|
| 3014 |
Samadre | Loan Great Britain |
| 3015 |
Sambanka | Loan Great Britain |
| 3019 |
George Eldridge |
|
| 3020 |
Samadang | Loan Great Britain |
| 3023 |
Hadley F. Brown |
|
| 3026 |
John Chester Kendall | USAT |
| 3027 |
Joseph I. Kemp |
|
| 3028 |
Joseph Squires | USAT |
| 3032 |
Harriet Tubman |
|
| 3033 |
Ernest W. Gibson |
|
| 3036 |
Aram J. Pothier | USAT |
| 3039 |
Augustus P. Loring |
|
| 3040 |
B. Charney Vladeck |
|
| 3041 |
James Sullivan |
|
| 3045 |
Edward E. Spafford |
|
| 3046 |
Marcus H. Tracy |
|
| 3049 |
George N. Seger |
|
| 3050 |
Michael Moran |
|
| 3053 |
William Lyon Phelps |
|
| 3054 |
C. H. M. Jones | USAT |
| 3055 |
Ferdinand Gagnon |
|
| 3059 |
Elijah Cobb |
|
| 3062 |
Robert R. McBurney |
|
| 3063 |
Edward L. Logan |
|
| 3066 |
Abraham Rosenberg |
|
| 3067 |
Wilson B. Keene |
|
| 3068 |
William A. Dobson (I) | Completed as Iolanda AKS 14 |
| 3072 |
Bert Williams (I) | Completed as Belgian Unity Loan Belgium |
| 3075 |
Matthew Sheehan |
|
| 3076 |
Frederick Bouchard |
|
| 3079 |
Bert Williams (II) |
|
| 3080 |
Cuttyhunk Island | AG 75 |
| 3081 |
Calvin Austin |
|
| 3085 |
Avery Island | AG 76 |
| 3088 |
Indian Island | AG 77 |
| 3089 |
William A. Dobson (II) |
|
| 3092 |
Kent Island | AG 78 |
| 3093 |
Alfred E. Smith | USAT |
| 3094 |
T. S. Gold |
|
| 3098 |
James A. Butts |
|
| 3101 |
Clarence F. Peck |
|
| 3104 |
Donald H. Holland |
|
| 3105 |
Wilfred R. Bellevue |
|
| 3106 |
Fred E. Joyce |
|
| 3110 |
Elias Reisberg |
|
| 3111 |
William H. Lane |
|
| 3114 |
Leif M. Olson |
|
| 3117 |
Charles H. Shaw | Completed as Lesvos |
South
Portland Shipbuilding Corp., East Yard
EC2-S-C1 Type
WSAT stands for War Shipping
Administration Transport; the number in parentheses shows the number of troops
the ship could hold.
USAT stands for Army Transportation Service, and indicates the ship was
chartered or operated by ATS.
AK, AP and similar designations denote US Navy commissioned ships.
The order below approximates the order of construction within the yard.
| Hull # | Name | Designations/names |
| 768 |
William P. Fessenden |
|
| 769 |
Winslow Homer |
|
| 770 |
John Murray Forbes | WSAT (550) USAT |
| 771 |
Augustine Heard |
|
| 772 |
Edward Preble | AKS 9 Volans |
| 773 |
Calvin Coolidge | WSAT (550) USAT |
| 774 |
John A. Dix |
|
| 775 |
Walter E. Ranger | WSAT (550) USAT |
| 776 |
Noah Webster | WSAT (550) USAT |
| 777 |
Eliphalet Nott |
|
| 778 |
Isaac Sharpless | WSAT (550) USAT |
| 779 |
Timothy Dwight | WSAT (550) USAT |
| 780 |
Ezra Cornell | WSAT (550) USAT |
| 781 |
Francis Amasa Walker | WSAT (550) USAT |
| 782 |
Joseph Warren | WSAT (550) USAT |
| 783 |
Emma Willard | WSAT (550) USAT |
| 784 |
William Phips |
|
| 785 |
Charles Sumner |
|
| 786 |
Asa Gray | WSAT (550) USAT |
| 787 |
Mary Lyon |
|
| 788 |
Henry Wilson |
|
| 789 |
Charles W. Eliot | USAT |
| 790 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
|
| 791 |
Eugene Hale | WSAT (550) USAT |
| 792 |
Robert Treat | USAT |
| 814 |
Ferdinando Gorges |
|
| 815 |
John Mason |
|
| 820 |
Cyrus H. K Curtis |
|
| 821 |
William DeWitt Hyde | Hellas |
| 823 |
Park Holland |
|
| 824 |
Peregrine White |
|
| 827 |
John Fairfield | USAT |
South
Portland Shipbuilding Corporation, West Yard
EC2-S-C1 Type
WSAT stands for War Shipping
Administration Transport; the number in parentheses shows the number of troops
the ship could hold.
USAT stands for Army Transportation Service, and indicates the ship was
chartered or operated by ATS.
AK, AP and similar designations denote US Navy commissioned ships.
The order below approximates the order of construction within the yard.
| Hull # | Name | Designations/names |
| 201 |
John Davenport |
|
| 202 |
John Winthrop |
|
| 203 |
Thomas Hooker |
|
| 204 |
Ethan Allen | WSAT (550) USAT |
| 205 |
Josiah Bartlett | WSAT (550) USAT |
| 206 |
William King |
|
| 207 |
John Carver |
|
| 208 |
William Bradford | USAT |
| 209 |
William Brewster |
|
| 210 |
Lou Gehrig | USAT |
| 211 |
Daniel Webster | USAT |
| 212 |
William Pierce Frye |
|
| 213 |
Hannibal Hamlin |
|
| 333 |
James G. Blaine | WSAT (550) USAT |
| 334 |
Herman Melville | USAT |
| 335 |
Julia Ward Howe | USAT |
| 336 |
Anne Bradstreet |
|
| 337 |
John Trumbull | WSAT (550) USAT |
| 338 |
Richard Hovey |
|
New
England Shipbuilding Corp., East Yard
Boxed Aircraft Z-EC2-S-C5 Type
| Hull # | Name | Designations/names |
| 3125 |
Robert W. Hart | USAT, AG 165 Georgetown |
| 3126 |
J. Howland Gardner | USAT, AG 166- AGTR 3 Jamestown |
| 3127 |
Samuel R. Aitken | USAT, AG 159- AGTR 1 Oxford |
| 3128 |
Lorenzo C. McCarthy | USAT |
| 3129 |
Cardinal O'Connell | USAT |
| 3130 |
Tom Treanor | USAT |
| 3131 |
Walter F. Perry | USAT |
| 3132 |
Albert M. Boe | USAT |
| 3133-3136 | Cancelled |
Rheem
Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island
EC2-S-C1 Type
| Hull # | Name | Designations/names |
| 1457 |
William Coddington | USAT |
| 1463-1488 |
Cancelled |
Built
by Walsh-Kaiser Company Providence, Rhode Island
EC2-S-C1 Type
WSAT stands for War Shipping
Administration Transport; the number in parentheses shows the number of troops
the ship could hold.
USAT stands for Army Transportation Service, and indicates the ship was
chartered or operated by ATS.
AK, AP and similar designations denote US Navy commissioned ships.
The order below approximates the order of construction within the yard.
| Hull # | Name | Designations/names |
| 1458 |
John Clarke | WSAT (550) USAT |
| 1459 |
Samuel Gorton |
|
| 1460 |
James De Wolf |
|
| 1461 |
Lyman Abbot | WSAT AP USAT |
| 1462 |
Moses Brown |
|
| 3119 |
Melville Jacoby | USAT |
| 3120 |
Frank Gilbreth |
|
| 3121 |
Cornelius Ford |
|
| 3122 |
Jesse H. Metcalf |
|
| 3123 |
Nelson W. Aldrich |
|
| 3124 |
Cancelled |
|
Source:
The liberty ships; The history of the"emergency" type cargo ships
constructed in the United States during World War II, by L. A. Sawyer and
W. H. Mitchell. Cornell Maritime Press, Cambridge, Md.,1970
Liberty Ships, The Ugly Ducklings of World War II,
John G. Bunker. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1972
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