SS Daniel Chester French

History
United States
Name	Daniel Chester French
Namesake	Daniel Chester French
Owner	War Shipping Administration (WSA)
Operator	Stockard Steamship Corp.
Ordered	as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MCE hull 924
Awarded	30 January 1942
Builder	Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland
Cost	$1,061,765
Yard number	2074
Way number	14
Laid down	12 October 1942
Launched	12 November 1942
Sponsored by	Mrs. Conrad Fretzer
Completed	30 November 1942
Identification	Call sign: KHQA; ;
Fate	Struck a mines and sunk off Bizerta, Tunisia, 6 March 1944
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 Ellicott Machine Corp., Baltimore, Maryland); 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;

NameDaniel Chester French

NamesakeDaniel Chester French

OwnerWar Shipping Administration (WSA)

OperatorStockard Steamship Corp.

SS Daniel Chester French was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Daniel Chester French, an American sculptor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, from New Hampshire.

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Sculptures (public)	The Minute Man (1874) John Harvard (1884) Memory (1886–1887) Thomas Gallaudet Memorial (1889) Lewis Cass (1889) Death and the Sculptor (1889) Thomas Starr King (1892) John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial (1896) T. A. Chapman Memorial (1896–1897) Richard Morris Hunt Memorial (1898) Rufus Choate (1898) Ulysses S. Grant (1899) George H. Perkins (1902) Joseph Hooker (1903) Alma Mater (1903–1904) Colonel James Anderson Monument (1904) William Francis Bartlett (1904) Four Continents (1905–1907) Charles Devens (1906) Progress of the State (1906) James Oglethorpe Monument (1907–1910) George Frisbie Hoar (1908) Russell Alger Memorial Fountain (1913–1921) Samuel Spencer (1910) Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln, Nebraska; 1912) Butt–Millet Memorial Fountain (1913) Wisconsin (1913–1914) The Spirit of Life (1914) Wendell Phillips (1914) Lafayette Memorial (1917) The Republic (1918; replica of 1893 statue) Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial (1918) Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln Memorial; 1920) Dupont Circle Fountain (1921) Marquis de Lafayette (1921) Alfred Tredway White Memorial (1923) Victory statue, First Division Monument (1924) George Robert White Memorial (1924) Washington Irving Memorial (1925–1926) Westinghouse Memorial (1926–1930) William Henry Seward Memorial (1930) Beneficence (1930) Equestrian statue of George Washington
Medals	Pulitzer Prize (1917)
Museums	Chesterwood
Related	Henry Flagg French (father) William M.R. French (brother) William M. Richardson (grandfather) Audrey Munson (model) Berkshire Playhouse National Sculpture Society Minute Man National Historical Park Lexington–Concord Sesquicentennial half dollar Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor (2022 documentary) SS Daniel Chester French

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United States
Name	Daniel Chester French
Namesake	Daniel Chester French
Owner	War Shipping Administration (WSA)
Operator	Stockard Steamship Corp.
Ordered	as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MCE hull 924
Awarded	30 January 1942
Builder	Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland^[1]
Cost	$1,061,765^[2]
Yard number	2074
Way number	14
Laid down	12 October 1942
Launched	12 November 1942
Sponsored by	Mrs. Conrad Fretzer
Completed	30 November 1942
Identification	Call sign: KHQA ^[2]
Fate	Struck a mines and sunk off Bizerta, Tunisia, 6 March 1944


General characteristics ^[3]
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 Ellicott Machine Corp., Baltimore, Maryland) 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