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SS Ben Robertson was a Liberty ship, Maritime Commission hull number 2432, built during World War II and named for Clemson University alumnus (Class of 1923), journalist, and war correspondent Benjamin F. Robertson, who was killed in the crash of a Pan Am Boeing 314 flying boat, the Yankee Clipper, in the Tagus River, near Lisbon, Portugal, on 22 February 1943. Under the auspices of the War Shipping Administration, the Ben Robertson was operated under contract by the A. H. Bull Steamship Company, of New York City, through the end of the war.

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rdfs:label	SS Ben Robertson (en)
rdfs:comment	SS Ben Robertson was a Liberty ship, Maritime Commission hull number 2432, built during World War II and named for Clemson University alumnus (Class of 1923), journalist, and war correspondent Benjamin F. Robertson, who was killed in the crash of a Pan Am Boeing 314 flying boat, the Yankee Clipper, in the Tagus River, near Lisbon, Portugal, on 22 February 1943. Under the auspices of the War Shipping Administration, the Ben Robertson was operated under contract by the A. H. Bull Steamship Company, of New York City, through the end of the war. (en)
foaf:name	Ben Robertson (en)
dcterms:subject	Liberty ships Standard ship types of the United States Ships built in Savannah, Georgia 1944 ships World War II merchant ships of the United States
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Wikipage revision ID	1116414189 (xsd:integer)
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Savannah, Georgia Liberty ships Ben Robertson (journalist) Deadweight tonnage Deck gun Standard ship types of the United States Clemson University Liberty ship Lisbon Triple-expansion steam engine 4-inch/50-caliber gun A. H. Bull Steamship Company Dalton, Georgia Benjamin F. Robertson Boeing 314 Flying boat Length between perpendiculars Length overall Hirao Ithaca Ships built in Savannah, Georgia 1944 ships Tagus River World War II merchant ships of the United States War Shipping Administration Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation Length at the waterline Anti-aircraft guns
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Ship operator	A. H. Bull Steamship Company
Ship renamed	Kastor (en)
Ship sponsor	Mrs. Julian Longley, Robertson's sister (en)
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Ship armament	Stern-mounted deck gun for use against surfaced submarines, variety of anti-aircraft guns (en)
Ship builder	Savannah, Georgia Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation
Ship capacity	deadweight (en)
Ship class	Type EC2-S-C1 Liberty ship (en)
Ship completed	1944-01-21 (xsd:date)
Ship country	United States (en)
Ship crew	81 (xsd:integer)
Ship fate	Scrapped, December 1968 (en)
Ship laid down	1943-11-18 (xsd:date)
Ship launched	1944-01-04 (xsd:date)
Ship length	* o/a * p/p * w/l (en)
Ship name	Ben Robertson (en)
Ship namesake	Ben Robertson (journalist)
Ship propulsion	Two oil-fired boilers Triple-expansion steam engine * *Single screw (en)
Ship yard number	2432 (xsd:integer)
has abstract	SS Ben Robertson was a Liberty ship, Maritime Commission hull number 2432, built during World War II and named for Clemson University alumnus (Class of 1923), journalist, and war correspondent Benjamin F. Robertson, who was killed in the crash of a Pan Am Boeing 314 flying boat, the Yankee Clipper, in the Tagus River, near Lisbon, Portugal, on 22 February 1943. Ben Robertson was constructed at the yards of the Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation, Savannah, Georgia, one of 88 Liberty ships the yard built. Laid down on 18 November 1943, it was launched on 4 January 1944. Mrs. Julian Longley, Robertson's sister, of Dalton, Georgia, was sponsor for the new ship, part of a nationwide maritime program of naming Liberty ships for war correspondents killed in action. The new vessel was delivered on 21 January 1944, having spent 47 days on the ways and 17 in the water for a total of 64 days building. Under the auspices of the War Shipping Administration, the Ben Robertson was operated under contract by the A. H. Bull Steamship Company, of New York City, through the end of the war. More than 2,400 Liberty ships survived the war, only 196 having been lost in combat. Of these, 835 made up the postwar cargo fleet. Greek entrepreneurs bought 526 ships and Italian ones bought 98. The Ben Robertson was sold to a private firm in 1947, one of five Liberty ships acquired by Constantine G. Gratsos, one of the brothers of the George D. Gratsos Shipping Company of Athens, whose roots date to 1902, and was reflagged for Greece. The ship was renamed Kastor, and homeported at Ithaca, with Dracoulis, Ltd., of London acting as agent. Title changed slightly to George D. Gratsos, Athens, in 1949, and to Gratsos Bros., Athens, in 1963, the peak year for Liberty ship ownership when the Cuban blockade encouraged high freight rates. "The decline of the Liberties that started in 1964 was completed by 1974. In 1966 there were still 722 Liberties operating on world trade routes, of which 603 were Greek-owned." The ship was scrapped at Hirao, Japan, in December 1968. (en)
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ship launched	1944-01-04 (xsd:date)

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