Laid down 30 August 1942 Launched 20 October 1942 Displacement 12.92 million kg | Construction started 30 August 1942 Length 135 m Range 37.014912 million m | |
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Fate Lost off Algiers 20 April 1944 Beam 56 ft 10.75 in (17.3419 m) Draft 27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m) Propulsion Two oil-fired boilers,
triple-expansion steam engine,
single screw,
2500 horsepower (1.9 MW) Speed 11 to 11.5 knots (20 to 21 km/h) | ||
Uss paul hamilton sails into pearl harbor
The SS Paul Hamilton (Hull Number 227) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Paul Hamilton, the third United States Secretary of the Navy.
On her fifth voyage the SS Paul Hamilton left Hampton Roads, Virginia on 2 April 1944 as part of convoy UGS 38, carrying supplies and the ground personnel of the 485th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces to Italy. On the evening of 20 April it was attacked 30 miles (48 km) in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Cape Bengut near Algiers by 23 German Ju 88 bombers of III./Kampfgeschwader 26, I. and III./Kampfgeschwader 77. One aerial torpedo struck the Paul Hamilton and detonated the cargo of high explosives and bombs, and the ship and crew disappeared within 30 seconds. The crew and passengers, who included 154 officers and men of the 831st Bombardment Squadron and 317 officers and men of the 32nd Photo Reconnaissance Squadron, were all lost. Of the 580 men aboard only one body was recovered.