SS Andrew Turnbull
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| Name | Andrew Turnbull |
| Namesake | Andrew Turnbull |
| Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
| Operator | Wessel Duval & Company |
| Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 1222 |
| Builder | St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida[1] |
| Cost | $1,387,226[2] |
| Yard number | 30 |
| Way number | 6 |
| Laid down | 15 December 1943 |
| Launched | 8 February 1944 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. James C. Merrill, Jr. |
| Completed | 19 February 1944 |
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| Beam | 57 feet (17 m) |
| Draft | 27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m) |
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| Speed | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
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SS Andrew Turnbull was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Andrew Turnbull, a Scottish physician who later served as a British Consul at Smyrna, then part of the Ottoman Empire, in what is now Turkey. In 1768, he organized the largest attempt at British colonization in the New World by founding New Smyrna, Florida, named in honor of his wife's birthplace.
Andrew Turnbull was laid down on 15 December 1943, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 1222, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored by Mrs. James C. Merrill Jr., the wife of a Merrill-Stevens Drydock & Repair Co. executive, and was launched on 8 February 1944.[1][2]