Name SS Gouverneur Morris Laid down 29 March 1943 Construction started 29 March 1943 Length 135 m | Namesake Gouverneur Morris Name Leningrad Launched 18 April 1943 | |
Builder Oregon Shipbuilding Company, Portland, Oregon Fate Transferred to Russia, 1943 | ||
SS Gouverneur Morris (Hull Number 1627) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Gouverneur Morris, author of large sections of the United States Constitution, including the Preamble.
The ship was laid down on 29 March 1943, then launched on 18 April 1943. She was given to the Soviet Union in 1943, where she was renamed the Leningrad. Later in her life, she was given the name Ivan Kulibin, but was eventually scrapped in 1974.
(Ivan Petrovich Kulibin (April 21, 1735 – August 11, 1818) was a Russian mechanic and inventor. He was born in Nizhny Novgorod in the family of a trader. From childhood, Kulibin displayed an interest in constructing mechanical tools. Soon, clock mechanisms became a special interest of his. His realizations as well as his prolific imagination inspired the work of many.)