SS George Wythe
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | George Wythe |
| Namesake | George Wythe |
| Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
| Operator | Agwilines Inc. |
| Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MCE hull 24 |
| Awarded | 14 March 1941 |
| Builder | Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland[1] |
| Cost | $1,236,111[2] |
| Yard number | 2011 |
| Way number | 11 |
| Laid down | 22 September 1941 |
| Launched | 28 March 1942 |
| Sponsored by | Miss Geanne A. Culleton |
| Completed | 9 May 1942 |
| Identification | |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping, 24 July 1970 |
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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 George Wythe was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Founding Father George Wythe, the first American law professor, a noted classics scholar, and a Virginia judge. The first of the seven Virginia signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence, Wythe served as one of Virginia's representatives to the Second Continental Congress and the Philadelphia Convention. Wythe taught and was a mentor to Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, Henry Clay and other men who became American leaders.
George Wythe was laid down on 22 September 1941, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MCE hull 24, by the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland; sponsored by Miss Geanne A. Culleton, the daughter of C.J. Culleton, the resident plant auditor at the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, and was launched on 28 March 1942.[1][2]