SS A. B. Hammond

SS A. B. Hammond
History
United States
Name:	SS A. B. Hammond
Builder:	California Shipbuilding Corporation, Terminal Island, Los Angeles
Yard number:	2558
Completed:	February 1944
Fate:	Scrapped, 1963
General characteristics
Class & type:	Type EC2-S-C1 Liberty ship
Displacement:	14,245 long tons (14,474 t)
Length:	441 ft 6 in (134.57 m) o/a 417 ft 9 in (127.33 m) p/p 427 ft (130 m) w/l
Beam:	57 ft (17 m)
Draft:	27 ft 9 in (8.46 m)
Propulsion:	Two oil-fired boilers Triple-expansion steam engine 2,500 hp (1,900 kW) Single screw
Speed:	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Range:	20,000 nmi (37,000 km; 23,000 mi)
Capacity:	10,856 t (10,685 long tons) deadweight (DWT)
Crew:	81
Armament:	Stern-mounted 4 in (100 mm) deck gun for use against surfaced submarines, variety of anti-aircraft guns

SS A. B. Hammond was a liberty ship built by California Shipbuilding Corporation of Los Angeles, and delivered in February 1944 to the War Shipping Administration (WSA).

It was scrapped in 1963 following grounding damage.

Names and flags

• 1947 – Renamed "MARIO II" by Constantine Koniadlidis, Montevideo – Uruguay flag
• 1948 – Renamed "ENSENADA" Cia de Nav, Ensenada, Panama (S. G. Embiricos, London)
• 1959 – Renamed "CESTOS" Zenith Transportation Corporation, Liberia (Fratelli Delfino, Genoa)
• 1961 – Renamed "NICOLAOS TSAVLIRIS" Nigean Shipping Company, Panama – Greek flag (Tsavliris Maritime Company, Piraeus)
• 1963 – Scrapped – Turkey after grounding damage at Kilyos, Black Sea.