SS Augustus Saint-Gaudens

History
United States
Name	Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Namesake	Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Owner	War Shipping Administration (WSA)
Operator	Black Diamond Steamship Co.
Ordered	as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 1549
Builder	J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida
Cost	$1,350,923
Yard number	31
Way number	3
Laid down	20 December 1943
Launched	17 February 1944
Completed	30 March 1944
Identification	Call Signal: KWBO; ;
Fate	Laid up in National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Lee Hall, Virginia, 19 May 1946; Sold to Italy, 3 May 1947;
Italy
Name	Nazareno
Owner	Societe Coop di Navigazione Resp. Ltda., Genoa, Italy
Acquired	27 May 1947
Fate	Sold, 1948
Italy
Owner	Garibaldi Societe Coop di Navigazione Resp. Ltda., Genoa, Italy
Acquired	1948
Fate	Scrapped, 1967
General characteristics
Class & type	Liberty ship; type EC2-S-C1, standard;
Tonnage	10,865 LT DWT; 7,176 GRT;
Displacement	3,380 long tons (3,434 t) (light); 14,245 long tons (14,474 t) (max);
Length	441 feet 6 inches (135 m) oa; 416 feet (127 m) pp; 427 feet (130 m) lwl;
Beam	57 feet (17 m)
Draft	27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m)
Installed power	2 × Oil fired 450 °F (232 °C) boilers, operating at 220 psi (1,500 kPa); 2,500 hp (1,900 kW);
Propulsion	1 × triple-expansion steam engine, (manufactured by General Machinery Corp., Hamilton, Ohio); 1 × screw propeller;
Speed	11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)
Capacity	562,608 cubic feet (15,931 m3) (grain); 499,573 cubic feet (14,146 m3) (bale);
Complement	38–62 USMM; 21–40 USNAG;
Armament	Varied by ship; Bow-mounted 3-inch (76 mm)/50-caliber gun; Stern-mounted 4-inch (102 mm)/50-caliber gun; 2–8 × single 20-millimeter (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft (AA) cannons and/or,; 2–8 × 37-millimeter (1.46 in) M1 AA guns;

NameAugustus Saint-Gaudens

NamesakeAugustus Saint-Gaudens

OwnerWar Shipping Administration (WSA)

OperatorBlack Diamond Steamship Co.

SS Augustus Saint-Gaudens was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Augustus Saint-Gaudens, a Beaux-Arts sculptor that embodied the ideals of the "American Renaissance", designer of the Saint-Gaudens double eagle, and founder of the "Cornish Colony".

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Sculptures	Hiawatha (1872–1874) Statue of David Farragut (1881) Robert Gould Shaw Memorial (1884) Abraham Lincoln: The Man (1887) The Puritan (1887) Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer (Mariana Griswold) (1890) Adams Memorial (1891) Diana (1893) James Garfield Memorial (1896) General John Logan Memorial (1897) William Tecumseh Sherman and Victory (1902) Henry W. Maxwell Memorial (1903) The Children of Prescott Hall Butler (1907) Philip Brooks (c. 1907-1910) Abraham Lincoln: The Head of State (1908) Christopher Lyman Magee Memorial (1908)
Coins	Indian Head eagle Saint-Gaudens double eagle 1933 double eagle American Gold Eagle
Related	Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park Homer Saint-Gaudens (son) Louis Saint-Gaudens (brother) Cornish Art Colony National Sculpture Society SS Augustus Saint-Gaudens

v t e MARCOM ships built by Jones Construction, Wainwright Shipyards, Panama City, Florida, during World War II
Type EC2-S-C1 ships "Liberty Ships"	E. Kirby Smith Newton D. Baker John Bascom William J. Bryan Joseph M. Medill Elihu Root John Hay Dwight L. Moody Peter Zenger Harriet Hosmer Duncan U. Fletcher Dolly Madison Robert Lansing Victor Herbert Julius Rosenwald Walter L. Fleming Salvador Brau Harold T. Andrews Russell Sage William W. Loring Minnie M. Fiske John W. Griffiths Augustus Saint-Gaudens John M. Brooke Rebecca Lukens Alanson B. Houghton Samuel G. French Thomas LeValley Josephine Shaw Lowell Richard V. Oulahan James H. Kimball Stephen Furdek Jean Ribaut LeBaron Russell Briggs Howard Gray H. H. Raymond T. A. Johnston M. Michael Edelstein William D. Bloxham Nick Stoner William E. Dodd J. H. Drummond William L. Watson John R. McQuigg Carl E. Ladd Pedro Menendez George Ade Edward K. Collins C. Francis Jenkins Raymond V. Ingersoll Benjamin F. Coston William P. Duval Stepas Darius Alexander E. Brown Chief Osceola Richard Halliburton Samuel G. Howe Granville S. Hall Stephen Smith Charles D. Walcott Art Young Charles H. Marshall Ransom A. Moore Soter Ortynsky Bjarne A. Lia Wendell L. Willkie
Type Z-EC2-S-C2 ships "Army tank transports"	Mary Ball John Barton Payne Frederic C. Howe William B. Wilson Sarah J. Hale Nathan B. Forrest Stephen R. Mallory Edgar E Clark
Type Z-EC2-S-C5 ships "Boxed aircraft transports"	Frederick E. Williamson Michael James Monohan Charles A. Draper Rafael R. Rivera James W. Wheeler Raymond Van Brogan William J. Riddle Dudley H. Thomas John L. McCarley Vernon S. Hood Edwin D. Howard Wesley W. Barrett Warren P. Marks Frank O. Peterson Barney Kirschbaum Mary Cullom Kimbro James G. Squires James F. Harrell Claude Kitchin Francis J. O'Gara Frank Flowers Edwin H. Duff Joseph V. Connolly Walter W. Schwenk Charles H. Cugle Robert F. Burns Edward Burton Ora Ellis
Type T1-M-BT2 ships Tonti-class gasoline tankers	Tancred Tandora Tannadice Tantallon Tanova Tannaquil

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United States
Name	Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Namesake	Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Owner	War Shipping Administration (WSA)
Operator	Black Diamond Steamship Co.
Ordered	as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 1549
Builder	J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida
Cost	$1,350,923^[1]
Yard number	31
Way number	3
Laid down	20 December 1943
Launched	17 February 1944
Completed	30 March 1944
Identification	Call Signal: KWBO ^[1]
Fate	Laid up in National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Lee Hall, Virginia, 19 May 1946 Sold to Italy, 3 May 1947


Italy
Name	Nazareno
Owner	Societe Coop di Navigazione Resp. Ltda., Genoa, Italy
Acquired	27 May 1947
Fate	Sold, 1948


Italy
Owner	Garibaldi Societe Coop di Navigazione Resp. Ltda., Genoa, Italy
Acquired	1948
Fate	Scrapped, 1967


General characteristics ^[2]
Class & type	Liberty ship type EC2-S-C1, standard
Tonnage	10,865 LT DWT 7,176 GRT
Displacement	3,380 long tons (3,434 t) (light) 14,245 long tons (14,474 t) (max)
Length	441 feet 6 inches (135 m) oa 416 feet (127 m) pp 427 feet (130 m) lwl
Beam	57 feet (17 m)
Draft	27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m)
Installed power	2 × Oil fired 450 °F (232 °C) boilers, operating at 220 psi (1,500 kPa) 2,500 hp (1,900 kW)
Propulsion	1 × triple-expansion steam engine, (manufactured by General Machinery Corp., Hamilton, Ohio) 1 × screw propeller
Speed	11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)
Capacity	562,608 cubic feet (15,931 m³) (grain) 499,573 cubic feet (14,146 m³) (bale)
Complement	38–62 USMM 21–40 USNAG
Armament	Varied by ship Bow-mounted 3-inch (76 mm)/50-caliber gun Stern-mounted 4-inch (102 mm)/50-caliber gun 2–8 × single 20-millimeter (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft (AA) cannons and/or, 2–8 × 37-millimeter (1.46 in) M1 AA guns