SS John Witherspoon
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | John Witherspoon |
| Namesake | John Witherspoon |
| Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
| Operator | Seas Shipping Co., Inc. |
| Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MCE hull 31 |
| Awarded | 14 March 1941 |
| Builder | Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland[1] |
| Cost | $1,177,161[2] |
| Yard number | 2018 |
| Way number | 5 |
| Laid down | 10 December 1941 |
| Launched | 4 March 1942 |
| Sponsored by | Miss Grace Rose Culleton |
| Completed | 23 April 1942 |
| Fate | Sunk, 6 July 1942 |
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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 John Witherspoon was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after John Witherspoon, a Scottish-American Presbyterian minister and a Founding Father of the United States. Politically active, Witherspoon was a delegate from New Jersey to the Second Continental Congress and a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence. Later, he signed the Articles of Confederation and supported ratification of the Constitution. In 1789 he was convening moderator of the First General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.
John Witherspoon was laid down on 10 December 1941, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MCE hull 31, by the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland; sponsored by Miss Grace Rose Culleton, the daughter of J.C. Dulleton, the resident MARCOM plant auditor, and was launched on 4 March 1942.[1][2]
