Name SS Harriet Tubman Yard number 3032 Laid down 19 April 1944 Construction started 19 April 1944 Length 135 m | Namesake Harriet Tubman Way number 6 Fate Scrapped, 1972 Launched 3 June 1944 | |
Builder New England Shipbuilding Corporation | ||
SS Harriet Tubman (MC contract 3032) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Harriet Tubman, an African-American abolitionist and spy during the American Civil War.
The ship was laid down by the South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation, South Portland, Maine, on 19 April 1944, then launched on 3 June 1944. The ship survived the war only to suffer the same fate as nearly all other Liberty ships that survived did; she was scrapped in 1972.
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