SS ''Raymond V. Ingersoll'' was a

Liberty ship Liberty ships were a ship class, class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Though British in concept, the design was adopted by the United States for its simple, low-cost constr ...

built in the United States during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

. She was named after Raymond V. Ingersoll, borough president of

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from 1934 to 1940.

Construction

''Raymond V. Ingersoll'' was laid down on 27 July 1944, under a

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(MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2317, by

J.A. Jones Construction J.A. Jones Construction was a heavy construction company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Operating internationally since the 1950s, it merged with Germany's Philipp Holzmann, Philipp Holzmann AG in 1979. In 2003 the company ceased oper ...

Panama City, Florida Panama City is a city in and the county seat of Bay County, Florida, United States. Located along U.S. Highway 98 (US 98), it is the largest city between Tallahassee and Pensacola. It is the more populated city of the Panama City–Lynn ...

; and launched on 31 August 1944.

History

She was allocated to Polarus Steamship Company, 18 September 1944. On 3 June 1946, she was laid up in the

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, Jones Point, New York. Reallocated to Polarus Steamship Company, 12 July 1946. Placed in National Defense Reserve Fleet,

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, Alabama, 17 October 1946. She was sold, on 6 February 1947, to Rich. Amlie & Co., for $599,309.36 and commercial use. She was flagged in

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and renamed ''Sneland I''. In 1959, she was sold to the

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, allocated to the Polish Steamship Co., and renamed ''Kopalnia Zabrze''. She was converted to a floating warehouse in 1975, and renamed ''MP-ZP-GDY-8'', until being scrapped in 1982.

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