Yard number 2217 Completed September 1943 Launched 25 August 1943 Draft 8.46 m | Laid down 24 July 1943 Construction started 24 July 1943 Length 135 m | |
Name Peter Cooper (1943)Samarkand (1943-1947)Talthybius (1947-1954)Gleniffer (1954-1958)Dove (1958-1965)Patraic Sky (1965-1971) Owner British Government (1943-47)Ocean Steamship Co Ltd (1947-54)Glen Line (1954-58)Colombine Shipping Co (1958-65)Patriarch Steamship Co (1965-71) Builder Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation | ||
The SS Samarkand (Hull Number 1769, launched as the SS Peter Cooper) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II.
Originally named after Peter Cooper, an American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist, the ship was laid down by Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company on 24 July 1943, then launched on 25 August 1943. She was loaned to Great Britain as part of the Lend-Lease program where she was renamed the SS Samarkand. She was renamed after the Uzbek city of Samarkand. The ship survived the war and was sold into private ownership in 1947. She was scrapped in 1971.
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