Name SS Robert M. T. Hunter Yard number 8 Laid down 11 December 1943 Launched 28 March 1943 | Namesake Robert M.T. Hunter Way number 3 Construction started 11 December 1943 Length 135 m | |
Builder Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation, Savannah, Georgia | ||
SS Robert M. T. Hunter (MC contract 348) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, an American statesman.
The ship was laid down on December 11, 1942, then launched on March 28, 1943. The ship survived the war only to suffer the same fate as nearly all other Liberty ships that survived did; she was scrapped in 1971.
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