Liberty Ships built for U. S. Maritime Commission 1941-1945 by:
New England Shipbuilding Corporation, South Portland Maine
South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation, South Portland Maine
Rheem Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island

Walsh-Kaiser Company, Providence, Rhode Island

WSAT stands for War Shipping Administration Transport; the number in parentheses shows the number of troops the ship could hold.
USAT stands for Army Transportation Service, and indicates the ship was chartered or operated by ATS.
AK, AP and similar designations denote US Navy commissioned ships.
The order below approximates the order of construction within the yard.

New England Shipbuilding Corporation
East Yard

West Yard
Boxed aircraft carriers
South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation
East Yard

West Yard
Rheem Manufacturing Company
Walsh-Kaiser Company
Walsh-Kaiser took over management of the shipyard from Rheem on direction of the Maritime Commission

New England Shipbuilding Corp., East Yard
EC2-S-C1 Type

Hull # Name Designations/names

793

George Cleeve USAT

794

Jacob H. Gallinger USAT

795

Sylvester Gardiner [Silvester]

 

796

Robert Jordan

 

797

Robert Rogers

 

798

Ezra Weston USAT

799

Josiah Quincy

 

800

William Sturgis

 

2188

Sumner I. Kimball

 

2189

Robert L. Vann USAT

2193

Omar E. Chapman USAT

2194

George Popham USAT

2196

Barrett Wendell Completed as Samphill Loan Great Britain

2197

William Pitt Preble Completed as Samrich Loan Great Britain

2199

Percy D. Haughton Completed as Samtrent Loan Great Britain

2200

Robert R. Randall

 

2201

Mercy Warren

 

2205

Webb Miller USAT

2206

George S. Wasson

 

2209

Eugene E. O'Donnell USAT

2210

Samdon Loan Great Britain

2212

Samythian Loan Great Britain

2213

Susan Colby

 

2214

Samearn

Loan Great Britain 

2218

Samteviot Loan Great Britain

2219

Sarah Orne Jewett

 

2222

Samtyne Loan Great Britain

2223

Samstrae Loan Great Britain

2224

Samderwent Loan Great Britain

3005

Samsperrin Loan Great Britain

3006

Arthur Sewall USAT

3008

Park Benjamin

 

3009

Samderry Loan Great Britain

3012

Elijah Kellog USAT

3013

Charles Dauray

 

3016

Raymond B. Stevens

 

3017

Samwake Loan Great Britain

3018

Samoresby Loan Great Britain

3021

Samsuva Loan Great Britain

3022

Samidway Loan Great Britain

3024

Samsmola Loan Great Britain

3025

George Hawley

 

3029

Joseph Augustin Chevalier

 

3030

William Leavitt

 

3031

Lot Morrill Completed as Miaoulis

3034

Thomas H. Sumner

 

3035

Joseph C. Lincoln

 

3037

George L. Farley

 

3038

Andrew J. Newbury USAT YAG

3042

Lot M. Morrill

 

3043

Joseph N. Dinand

 

3044

Harold I. Pratt

 

3047

Thomas Bradlee

 

3048

William Tyler

 

3051

Archibald R. Mansfield

 

3052

Galen L. Stone

 

3056

Robert B. Forbes

 

3057

Frank P. Reed

 

3058

Michael Anagnos

 

3060

Loammi Baldwin

 

3061

James T. Fields

 

3064

Charles Tufts

 

3065

Kenyon L. Butterfield USAT

3069

Winthrop L. Marvin

 

3070

Belle Isle AG 73

3071

Liguria AKS 15

3073

Coasters Harbor AG 74

3074

Edmond Mallet

 

3077

Thomas F. Meagher

 

3078

Joseph Lee

 

3082

Joshua Slocum

 

3083

Julia P. Shaw

 

3084

Paul Buck

 

3086

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

3087

Ezra Meech USAT

3090

Leon S. Merrill USAT

3091

Francis A. Retka

 

3095

William Bevan

 

3096

Charles N. Cole

 

3097

George A. Lawson

 

3099

Richard D. Lyons

 

3100

George N. Drake Completed as Carl Oftedal

3102

Lawrence T. Sullivan Completed as Belgian Amity Loan Belgium; USAT

3103

Joseph Carrigan

 

3107

Elwin F. Knowles

 

3108

Ernest L. Dawson

 

3109

Oliver Westover

 

3112

Allen G. Collins

 

3113

John Robert Gordon

 

3115

Harold H. Brown

 

3116

Stanley R. Fisher

 

3118

Frederick Austin Completed as Dodekanesos

 

New England Shipbuilding Corp., West Yard
EC2-S-C1 Type

WSAT stands for War Shipping Administration Transport; the number in parentheses shows the number of troops the ship could hold.
USAT stands for Army Transportation Service, and indicates the ship was chartered or operated by ATS.
AK, AP and similar designations denote US Navy commissioned ships.
The order below approximates the order of construction within the yard.

Hull # Name Designations/names

214

John Sullivan WSAT (550) USAT

215

John Chandler

 

216

John Holmes

 

339

Emily Dickinson USAT

340

Eugene Field

 

801

Thomas W. Hyde WSAT (550) USAT

802

George F. Patten

 

803

William Pepperell USAT

804

Thomas B. Reed

 

805

Joshua L. Chamberlain

 

806

Jeremiah O'Brien USAT

807

John A. Poor

 

808

Harry A. Garfield Belgian Dynasty

809

Arthur L. Perry

 

810

Nelson Dingley

 

811

James Bowdoin USAT

812

Henry Jocelyn

 

813

Bartholomew Gosnold

 

816

Anna Howard Shaw

 

817

Tobias Lear Completed as Fort Orange USAT

818

William H. Todd Completed as Ameriki

819

John N. Robins

 

822

Thomas Clyde USAT

825

Enoch Train USAT

826

William Blackstone Completed as Samtucky Loan Great Britain

2190

Jeremiah L. Chaplin Completed as Samakron Loan Great Britain

2191

Elias H. Derby Completed as Samlong Loan Great Britain

2192

Mary Wilkins Freeman

 

2195

J. Willard Gibbs

 

2198

James Manning

 

2202

Charles A. Young Completed as Samspring Loan Great Britain

2203

Peleg Wadsworth Completed as Samtampa Loan Great Britain

2204

Bronson Alcott Completed as Samavon Loan Great Britain

2207

Edward Kavanagh  

2208

George T. Angell

 

2211

Edward H. Crockett

 

2215

Renald Fernald

 

2216

Samannan Loan Great Britain

2217

Washington Allston

 

2220

Frederick W. Taylor

 

2221

Samwye Loan Great Britain

3004

Stanton H. King

 

3007

Samdaring Loan Great Britain

3010

Lillian Nordica USAT

3011

Belgian Tenacity

 

3014

Samadre Loan Great Britain

3015

Sambanka Loan Great Britain

3019

George Eldridge

 

3020

Samadang Loan Great Britain

3023

Hadley F. Brown

 

3026

John Chester Kendall USAT

3027

Joseph I. Kemp

 

3028

Joseph Squires USAT

3032

Harriet Tubman

 

3033

Ernest W. Gibson

 

3036

Aram J. Pothier USAT

3039

Augustus P. Loring

 

3040

B. Charney Vladeck

 

3041

James Sullivan

 

3045

Edward E. Spafford

 

3046

Marcus H. Tracy

 

3049

George N. Seger

 

3050

Michael Moran

 

3053

William Lyon Phelps

 

3054

C. H. M. Jones USAT

3055

Ferdinand Gagnon

 

3059

Elijah Cobb

 

3062

Robert R. McBurney

 

3063

Edward L. Logan

 

3066

Abraham Rosenberg

 

3067

Wilson B. Keene

 

3068

William A. Dobson (I) Completed as Iolanda AKS 14

3072

Bert Williams (I) Completed as Belgian Unity Loan Belgium

3075

Matthew Sheehan

 

3076

Frederick Bouchard

 

3079

Bert Williams (II)

 

3080

Cuttyhunk Island AG 75

3081

Calvin Austin

 

3085

Avery Island AG 76

3088

Indian Island AG 77

3089

William A. Dobson (II)

 

3092

Kent Island AG 78

3093

Alfred E. Smith USAT

3094

T. S. Gold

 

3098

James A. Butts

 

3101

Clarence F. Peck

 

3104

Donald H. Holland

 

3105

Wilfred R. Bellevue

 

3106

Fred E. Joyce

 

3110

Elias Reisberg

 

3111

William H. Lane

 

3114

Leif M. Olson

 

3117

Charles H. Shaw Completed as Lesvos

 

South Portland Shipbuilding Corp., East Yard
EC2-S-C1 Type

WSAT stands for War Shipping Administration Transport; the number in parentheses shows the number of troops the ship could hold.
USAT stands for Army Transportation Service, and indicates the ship was chartered or operated by ATS.
AK, AP and similar designations denote US Navy commissioned ships.
The order below approximates the order of construction within the yard.

Hull # Name Designations/names

768

William P. Fessenden

 

769

Winslow Homer

 

770

John Murray Forbes WSAT (550) USAT

771

Augustine Heard

 

772

Edward Preble AKS 9 Volans

773

Calvin Coolidge WSAT (550) USAT

774

John A. Dix

 

775

Walter E. Ranger WSAT (550) USAT

776

Noah Webster WSAT (550) USAT

777

Eliphalet Nott

 

778

Isaac Sharpless WSAT (550) USAT

779

Timothy Dwight WSAT (550) USAT

780

Ezra Cornell WSAT (550) USAT

781

Francis Amasa Walker WSAT (550) USAT

782

Joseph Warren WSAT (550) USAT

783

Emma Willard WSAT (550) USAT

784

William Phips

 

785

Charles Sumner

 

786

Asa Gray WSAT (550) USAT

787

Mary Lyon

 

788

Henry Wilson

 

789

Charles W. Eliot USAT

790

Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

791

Eugene Hale WSAT (550) USAT

792

Robert Treat USAT

814

Ferdinando Gorges

 

815

John Mason

 

820

Cyrus H. K Curtis

 

821

William DeWitt Hyde Hellas

823

Park Holland

 

824

Peregrine White

 

827

John Fairfield USAT

South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation, West Yard
EC2-S-C1 Type

WSAT stands for War Shipping Administration Transport; the number in parentheses shows the number of troops the ship could hold.
USAT stands for Army Transportation Service, and indicates the ship was chartered or operated by ATS.
AK, AP and similar designations denote US Navy commissioned ships.
The order below approximates the order of construction within the yard.

Hull # Name Designations/names

201

John Davenport

 

202

John Winthrop

 

203

Thomas Hooker

 

204

Ethan Allen WSAT (550) USAT

205

Josiah Bartlett WSAT (550) USAT

206

William King

 

207

John Carver

 

208

William Bradford USAT

209

William Brewster

 

210

Lou Gehrig USAT

211

Daniel Webster USAT

212

William Pierce Frye

 

213

Hannibal Hamlin

 

333

James G. Blaine WSAT (550) USAT

334

Herman Melville USAT

335

Julia Ward Howe USAT

336

Anne Bradstreet

 

337

John Trumbull WSAT (550) USAT

338

Richard Hovey

 

 

New England Shipbuilding Corp., East Yard
Boxed Aircraft Z-EC2-S-C5 Type

Hull # Name Designations/names

3125

Robert W. Hart USAT, AG 165 Georgetown

3126

J. Howland Gardner USAT, AG 166- AGTR 3 Jamestown

3127

Samuel R. Aitken USAT, AG 159- AGTR 1 Oxford

3128

Lorenzo C. McCarthy USAT

3129

Cardinal O'Connell USAT

3130

Tom Treanor USAT

3131

Walter F. Perry USAT

3132

Albert M. Boe USAT
3133-3136 Cancelled  

 

Rheem Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island
EC2-S-C1 Type

Hull # Name Designations/names

1457

William Coddington USAT

1463-1488

Cancelled  

 

Built by Walsh-Kaiser Company Providence, Rhode Island
EC2-S-C1 Type

WSAT stands for War Shipping Administration Transport; the number in parentheses shows the number of troops the ship could hold.
USAT stands for Army Transportation Service, and indicates the ship was chartered or operated by ATS.
AK, AP and similar designations denote US Navy commissioned ships.
The order below approximates the order of construction within the yard.

Hull # Name Designations/names

1458

John Clarke WSAT (550) USAT

1459

Samuel Gorton

 

1460

James De Wolf

 

1461

Lyman Abbot WSAT AP USAT

1462

Moses Brown

 

3119

Melville Jacoby USAT

3120

Frank Gilbreth

 

3121

Cornelius Ford

 

3122

Jesse H. Metcalf

 

3123

Nelson W. Aldrich

 

3124

Cancelled

 

Source:
The liberty ships; The history of the"emergency" type cargo ships constructed in the United States during World War II, by L. A. Sawyer and W. H. Mitchell. Cornell Maritime Press, Cambridge, Md.,1970

Liberty Ships, The Ugly Ducklings of World War II, John G. Bunker. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1972

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