SSStephen R. Mallory was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Stephen R. Mallory, a United States senator from Florida, and the Confederate States Secretary of the Navy during the American Civil War.
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 United States | |
| Name | Stephen R. Mallory |
| Namesake | Stephen R. Mallory |
| Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
| Operator | Isbrandtsen Steamship Company |
| Ordered | as type (Z-EC2-S-C2) hull, MC hull 1540 |
| Builder | J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida |
| Cost | $1,460,233[1] |
| Yard number | 22 |
| Way number | 1 |
| Laid down | 19 October 1943 |
| Launched | 27 November 1943 |
| Completed | 20 January 1944 |
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| Class and type | type Z-EC2-S-C2, army tank transport |
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| Beam | 57 feet (17 m) |
| Draft | 27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m) |
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| Speed | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
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Stephen R. Mallory was laid down on 19 October 1943, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 1540, by J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida; she was launched on 27 November 1943.[3][1]
She was allocated to Isbrandtsen Steamship Company, on 20 January 1944. On 8 October 1947, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, in the Hudson River Group. On 23 November 1971, she was sold, along with two other ships, for $222,222 to Eckhardt & Co., G.m.b.H., West Germany, to be scrapped. She was removed from the fleet on 6 January 1971.[4][5]
