SS A. B. Hammond

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Name SS A. B. Hammond Completed February 1944		Yard number 2558 Fate Scrapped, 1963

Class and type Type EC2-S-C1 Liberty ship Displacement 14,245 long tons (14,474 t) Builders California Shipbuilding Corporation, Terminal Island

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.

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