SS John W. Brown
SS John W. Brown on the Great Lakes in 2000.
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| Name: | SS John W. Brown |
| Namesake: | John W. Brown (1867-1941), Canadian-born American labor union leader |
| Ordered: | 1 May 1941 |
| Builder: | Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Sparrows Point, Maryland |
| Laid down: | 28 July 1942 |
| Launched: | 7 September 1942 |
| Sponsored by: | Annie Green |
| Completed: | 19 September 1942 |
| Acquired: | 19 September 1942 |
| In service: | 19 September 1942 |
| Out of service: | 19 November 1946 |
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| Status: | Seagoing museum ship operated by Project Liberty Ship |
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| Class and type: | EC2-S-C1 (Liberty ship) |
| Tonnage: | 10,865 short tons (9,857 t) DWT |
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| Length: | 441 ft 6 in (134.6 m) |
| Beam: | 57 ft (17.4 m) |
| Draft: | 27 ft 9.25 in (8.5 m) |
| Propulsion: | One double-acting, condensing, triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine, coupled directly to a single, 18-foot (5.5-meter) screw; maximum 76 rpm; 2,500 horsepower (1,900 kW); two Babcock & Wilcox-design cross-drum sectional sinuous-header straight-tube boilers |
| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Range: | 23,000 miles (20,000 nmi; 37,000 km) |
| Capacity: | 562,608 cubic feet (15,931.3 m3) grain (as cargo ship) |
| Troops: | Up to 450, 550, or 650 (sources) as "Limited Capacity Troopship" |
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| Notes: | As of September 2007, the bow 3-inch gun and several 20-mm cannon were rigged with compressed gas firing simulators (oxygen and a fuel gas) for historical re-enactments of air defense |
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SS John W. Brown (Liberty Ship)
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| Location | Pier 1, Clinton St., Baltimore, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 39°16′4″N 76°34′12″W / 39.26778°N 76.57000°WCoordinates: 39°16′4″N 76°34′12″W / 39.26778°N 76.57000°W |
| Built | 1942 |
| Architect | Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland |
| NRHP Reference # | 97001295 |
| Added to NRHP | 17 November 1997 |
SS John W. Brown is a Liberty ship, one of two still operational and one of three preserved as museum ships. As a Liberty ship, she operated as a merchant ship of the United States Merchant Marine during World War II and later was a vocational high school training ship in New York City for many years. Now preserved, she is a museum ship and cruise ship berthed at Clinton Street Pier 1 in Baltimore Harbor in Maryland.
John W. Brown was named after the Canadian-born American labor union leader John W. Brown (1867-1941).
The other surviving operational Liberty ship is SS Jeremiah O'Brien in San Francisco, California. A third Liberty ship, SS Hellas Victory (ex-SS Arthur M. Huddell) is preserved as a static museum ship in Piraeus, Greece.
The United States Maritime Commission ordered John W. Brown as an ECS-S-C1 Maritime Commission Emergency Cargo Ship – the type of ship that would become popularly known as the "Liberty ship" – hull number 312 on 1 May 1941. She was laid down at the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore, Maryland, on 28 July 1942 and – sponsored by Annie Green, the wife of the president of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers – was launched on 7 September 1942, the third of three Liberty ships launched at the yard that day. She completed fitting out on 19 September 1942, making her total construction time only 54 days. She required about 500,000 man-hours and cost $1,750,000 to build and was the 62nd of the 384 Liberty ships constructed at the Bethlehem-Fairfield yard.
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