LIBERTY SHIPS - L


NAME
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COMP.
HISTORY
L. H. McNelly 17 07 10.43 1943 WSA (Parry Navigation Co, NY)
1946 ZEEMAN, Netherlands Gov't.
1947 Koninklijke Rotterdamsche Lloyd, Rotterdam.
1950 TROMPENBERG, Stoomb.Maats Hillegersberg - Netherlands flag (Vinke & Co, Amsterdam.
1959 SANTA FE, Santa Fe Naviera - Liberian flag (Amerind Shpg.Corp, NY) rebuilt to 8,327 g.t.
1961 Cia.Naviera Santa Fe Ltda, Santiago - Chilean flag
13.8.67 Posted missing after storm, Straits of Magellan. Last reported sighting at 44.40S 75.00W
La Salle Seam 04 11 3.45 Collier
1945 WSA (Boland & Cornelius, Buffalo, NY)
1946 Marine Interests Corp, Jersey City, NY.- US flag
1947 MARINE TRADER, same owners.
1952 Marine Navigation Co.- US flag.
1962 (Marine Transport Lines, NY)
1967 Returned to US Gov't.
1968 Scrapped Santander.
Lafcadio Hearn 04 08 9.43 Tanker
1943 WSA (Tankers Co.Inc, NY)
1948 POLARUSOIL, Polarus SS Co, NY- US flag
1955 MYCENAE, Marathon Cia.de Vapores, Panama - Liberian flag (Admanthos Ship Operating Co, NY)
1955 Converted to 7,314 g.t. dry cargo ship.
1956 Rebuilt to 8,588 g.t.
1960 HYDROUSSA, same owner - Greek flag.
1960 (Syros Shpg.Co, London)
1964 DROMON, same owners.
1966 MYCENAE, same owners- Liberian flag (Pergamos Shipping Co, London)
1969 Scrapped Taiwan.
Lambert Cadwalader 17 08 11.42 1960 Scrapped Baltimore
Langdon Cheves 16 08 6.43 1961 Scrapped Baltimore
Laura Bridgman 05 08 11.44 1944 WSA (Pope & Talbot Inc, San Francisco)
1950 Laid up
1951 CATHERINE, Drytrans Inc, NY - US flag.
1957 PENN EXPLORER, Bulkcargo Shpg.Corp.- Liberian flag. (Penn Shpg.Co, NY) - US flag.
1958 Penntrans Co.- US flag (same managers)
1962 GRAND EXPLORER, Friendship Nav.Corp.- Liberian flag (Sea King Corp, NY)
1967 Scrapped Taiwan.
Laura Drake Gill 17 11 7.44 1944 WSA (T. J. Stevenson & Co, NY)
1946 WSA (Matson Navigation Co, San Francisco)
1946 Matson Navigation Co, San Francisco- US flag
1947 HAWAIIAN LUMBERMAN, same owner
1960 CAPE HENRY, Northern SS Co, NY- US flag
1962 TRIKERI, Artemison SS Co, Panama- Greek flag (Northern Ships Agency, NY)
1962 Liberian flag.
1965 DAHLIA, Kelly Shipping Corp.- Liberian flag (Kai Lee Marine Lines, Taipei)
1966 Scrapped Taiwan
Laura Keene 07 14 2.43 Laid up James River
1973 Scrapped Bilbao
Laurence J. Gallagher 04 11 5.45 1945 WSA (Norton Lilly Management Co, NY)
1947 Laid up James River.
1951 NIGEL, Firth SS Corp, NY- US flag.
1958 RUSSELL L, Long, Quinn & Boylen Co, NY- US flag.
1961 Amerind Shipping Corp, NY- US flag.
1962 Earl J. Smith & Co, NY- US flag.
1965 U.S. RED RIVER, U.S.Bulk Carriers Inc.- US flag
1966 Laid up Hong Kong
1966 Scrapped Taiwan
Lawrence D. Tyson 11 08 7.43 Laid up James River
1971 Scrapped Bilbao
Lawrence Gianella 13 18 12.43 1943 WSA (Matson Navigation Co, San Francisco)
1947 MARY G, Cia.Caribbean de Transports Maritima, Panama - Panamanian flag.
1948 JALAKALA, Scindia S.N.Co, Bombay - British flag (Narottam Morarjee, Bombay)
1957 Indian flag.
1960 CHIPBEE, China Pacific Nav.Co, Hong Kong - British flag.
1964 STANWOOD, Woodline Inc.- Liberian flag (Atlas SS Agency, San Francisco)
1964 Scrapped Osaka.
Lawrence J. Brengle 02 08 4.44 1944 WSA (Blidberg Rothchild Co, NY)
1947 ARA J. PONCHELET, Ponchelet Marine Corp, NY- US flag.
1948 MICHAEL J. GOULANDRIS, Stone SS Co.- US flag. (Orion Shpg & Tdg.Co, NY)
1953 MICHAEL G, Nueva Cordoba Cia.de Arm, Panamanian flag (same managers)
1961 Dominion Shpg.Corp.- Greek flag (same managers)
1963 MICHELIN, Cia.Nav.Continental, Panama - Liberian flag. (Ocean Shpg & Tdg.Co, NY)
1965 TAI NAN, Taiwan Navigation Co, Taipei- Nationalist Chinese flag.
1965 Taiwan flag.
1967 Scrapped Taiwan.
Lawrence T. Sullivan 09 19 4.45 See BELGIAN AMITY
Lawton B. Evans 01 01 1.43 1960 Scrapped Baltimore
Le Baron Russell Briggs 06 10 5.44 Laid up Hudson River
1970 Scuttled off Cape Kennedy with cargo of nerve gas.
Lee S. Overman 11 08 6.43 1943 WSA (Blidberg Rothchild & Co, NY)
12.11.44 Mined and sunk off Le Havre, France.
Leif Ericson 04 10 12.43 Tanker
1943 PORCUPINE (IX126), US Navy
30.12.44 Sunk by Japanese Kamikaze air attack off Mindoro, Philippines.
Leiv Ericson 11 07 1.43 Built as JOHN WRIGHT STANLEY
1943 WSA (Barber SS Line & American West Africa Line, NY)
1943 Lease lend toNorwegian Gov't.
1947 VINNI, Skibs-A/S Eidsiva, Oslo - Norwegian flag (Sverre Ditlev-Simonsen & Co, Oslo)
1954 PROBITAS, Adriatico Tirreno Jonio Ligure di Alberto Ravano & Figli, Genoa - Italian flag.
1965 Industria Armamento, Genoa - Italian flag.
1969 Scrapped Vado, Italy.
Leif M. Olsen 10 08 4.45 Laid up Mobile
1971 Scrapped Panama City
Lektor Garbo 17 11 2.45 See ALFRED L. BAXLEY
Leland Stanford 03 08 8.42 1967 Scrapped Oakland, Cal.
Leningrad 12 10 4.43 Launched as GOUVERNEUR MORRIS, completed as LENINGRAD, U.S.S.R. flag
1964 IVAN KULIBIN, U.S.S.R. flag.
1974 reported scrapped Vladivostok.
Leo J. Duster 02 08 12.43 1943 WSA (Standard Fruit & SS Co, New Orleans)
1946 WSA (American Liberty SS Co, NY)
1947 F. S. BELL, Weyerhaeuser SS Co, Newark, NJ.- US flag.
1963 BAT, Cargo Ships & Tankers Inc, NY- US flag
1966 DELURO, Deluro SS Inc.- Liberian flag (Apollo Shipping Inc, NY)
1969 Scrapped Taiwan.
Leon Godchaux 04 10 2.44 1944 WILDCAT (IX130) US Navy
1944 WILDCAT (AW2) US Navy
1946 WSA
1968 Scrapped Portland, Ore.
Leon S. Merrill 09 19 2.45 1965 Stern portion scrapped New Orleans, bow portion converted to derrick barge.
Leonardo L. Romero 17 11 2.45 1945 WSA (Polarus SS Co, NY)
1949 Laid up.
1951 CHIAN TRADER, Arc SS Corp.- US flag (Mar-Trade Corp, NY)
1957 COAL MINER, American Coal Shpg.Inc, NY- US flag.
1960 PETER BLIX, Blix SS Co- US flag (Cargo Ships & Tankers Inc, NY)
1961 Rebuilt to 8,539 g.t.
1961 METEOR, same owner - Liberian flag.
1969 ASITRES, Kentfield Shpg.Corp.- US flag (Asia Bulk Carriers, London)
1970 Scrapped Chittagong, Pakistan.
Leonidas Merritt 13 11 7.43 1943 WSA (United States Lines, NY)
1970 Scrapped Kearny, NJ.
Leonidas Polk 04 02 1.43 1965 Scrapped New Orleans
Leopold Damrosch 03 11 12.43 1961 Scrapped Baltimore
Leslie M. Shaw 14 11 12.42 1961 Scrapped Baltimore
Lesuth 03 11 4.43 See WILLIAM M. GWIN
Lesvos 10 08 5.45 Launched as CHARLES H. SHAW, completed 1945 as LESVOS, lease lend to Greek Gov't.
1946 MEANDROS, Livanos Maritime Co.- Greek flag
1962 ALFIOS, same owner.
1964 ATLANTIC SAILOR, Atlantic Freighters Ltd.- Greek flag (S. Livanos, London)
1967 Scrapped Taiwan.
Levi Woodbury 02 19 4.43 1964 Scrapped Philadelphia
Lew Wallace 13 08 9.42 1970 Scrapped Portland, Ore.
Lewis Cass 03 11 1.43 1943 WSA (Waterman SS Co, Mobile)
26.1.43 Ashore and wrecked Guadalupe Island, Mexico
Lewis Emery Jr. 02 08 11.43 1943 WSA (Merchants & Miners Transportation Co, Baltimore)
Laid up Wilmington.
1951 Victory Carriers Inc, NY.- US flag.
1957 Alex S. Onassis Corp.- Liberian flag (Victory Carriers Inc, NY)
1961 CATCHER, Edina Transportation Co.- Liberian flag (Olympic Maritime S.A, Monte Carlo)
1968 Scrapped Bilbao.
Lewis L. Dyche 12 10 12.43 1943 WSA (Interocean SS Corp, San Francisco)
4.1.45 Sunk by Japanese Kamikaze aircraft attack at Mindoro, Philippines.
Lewis Morris 14 11 6.42 1961 Scrapped Oakland, Cal.
Leyte 02 08 2.44 1944 LEYTE (ARG8), US Navy
1945 MAUI (ARG8), US Navy
1946 laid up San Diego, later Suisun Bay.
1972 Scrapped Richmond, Cal.
Liguria 09 17 11.44 1944 LIGURIA (AKS15), US Navy
1946 laid up Pearl Harbor
1947 USMC laid up Suisun Bay
1974 Scrapped South Korea.
Lilian Wald 14 10 1.44 1944 WSA (Weyerhaeuser SS Co, NY)
1947 GIORGIO, Enrico Insom, Rome - Italian flag
1960 DORCOL, Slobodna Plovidba, Sibenik - Yugoslav flag.
1970 Scrapped Split.
Lillian Nordica 10 09 3.44 1965 Scrapped Wilmington, NC.
Lincoln Steffens 03 11 12.42 Laid up James River
1971 Scrapped Philadelphia
Lindley M. Garrison 12 14 1.43 1961 Scrapped Everett, Wash.
Linn Boyd 04 10 3.44 1967 Scrapped Mobile
Linton Seam 04 11 4.45 Collier.
1945 WSA (Sprague SS Co, Boston)
1946 Sprague SS Co, Boston.- US flag.
1948 SEACONNET, same owners.
1963 SEACOMET, Seacrest Investment Co.- Liberian flag (Mercantile Nav.Co., Bahamas)
1964 Scrapped Bilbao.
Lionel Copley 02 08 8.43 See SAMBRAKE
Livingston 03 11 4.43 See JOSIAH D. WHITNEY
Lloyd S. Carlson 17 11 1.45 1945 WSA (American Liberty SS Co, NY)
1946 WSA (Dichmann, Wright & Pugh, Norfolk, Va)
1949 Laid up.
1951 MARY ADAMS, Bloomfield SS Co, Houston - US flag.
1955 WIND RUSH, Shepard SS Co, Boston - US flag
1959 DEBARDELEBEN MARINE I, Debardeleben Marine Corp.- US flag (Coyle Lines, New Orleans)
1960 Converted to 7,115 g.t. bulk chemical carrier.
1962 TEXAS GULF SULPHUR I, Texas Gulf Sulphur Co.- US flag.
1967 Hudson Waterways Corp.- US flag (Transwestern Assoc.Inc, NY)
1968 Returned to US Gov't.
1969 Scrapped New Orleans.
Loammi Baldwin 09 08 10.44 1965 Scrapped Philadelphia
Lorado Taft 17 11 8.44 1966 Scrapped Philadelphia
Lord Delaware 02 08 1.43 Laid up Hudson River
1971 Scrapped Santander
Lorenzo C. McCarthy 09 07 9.45 Laid up Mobile
1971 Scrapped Panama City
Lorenzo De Zavala 17 08 6.43 1964 Scrapped Philadelphia
Lorrin A. Thurston 03 11 9.43 See SAMCALIA
Lot Morrill 09 17 6.44 See MIAOULIS
Lot M. Morrill 09 09 8.44 1967 Scrapped Portland, Ore.
Lot Whitcomb 12 10 2.43 1943 WSA (Shepard SS Co, NY)
1947 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT VASSILIADES R.A.F. Michael V. Vassiliades, Chios.
1963 MITROPOLIS, same owner
1966 Delmar Armadora, Panama - Greek flag (Poseidon Shpg.Ltd, NY)
1967 Pacific Coast Shipping Co - Liberian flag (Lasco Shpg.Co, Portland, Ore)
1968 Zidell Explorations Inc, Portland.
1968 Scrapped Taiwan.
Lou Gehrig 10 08 1.43 1966 Scrapped Kearny, NJ.
Louis A. Godey 16 08 12.43 See SAMVANNAH
Louis A. Sengteller 14 11 9.43 1943 WSA (Alaska Packers Association, San Francisco)
1946 CORACERO, Cia.Argentina de Nav.Dodero, Buenos Aires - Argentine flag.
1948 ARRIERO, same owner.
1951 Flota Argentina de Nav.de Ultramar, Buenos Aires.
1961 Empresa Lineas Maritimas Argentines, Buenos Aires.
1963 AKTI, Melteni Cia.Nav, Panama - Liberian flag (Maritime Managers Co, NY)
1964 (Cape Shipping Ltd, NY)
1969 Scrapped Hirao.
Louis Agassiz 12 10 4.43 See EMILIAN PUGACHEV
Louis Bamberger 15 08 12.44 1944 WSA (Weyerhaeuser SS Co, Newark, NJ)
1947 HORACE IRVINE, Weyerhaeuser SS Co, Newark, NJ
1968 RELIANCE AMITY, Reliance Carriers S.A- Panamanian flag (Hongkong Maritime Co, Hong Kong)
1971 Scrapped Taiwan
Louis C. Tiffany 02  - 12.43 Burnt out while under construction and scrapped.
Louis D. Brandeis 02 09 3.43 1964 Scrapped Kearny, NJ.
Louis Hennepin 13 18 5.43 1961 Scrapped Tampa
Louis Joliet 14 11 1.43 1943 WSA (Seas Shipping Co, NY)
1947 ALIKI, Livanos Bros Maritime Co.- Greek flag
1952 (Economou & Co, London)
1959 RIO, Derna Cia.de Nav, Panama - Lebanese flag (Livanos & Sons, London)
1968 Scrapped Whampoa, China.
Louis Kossuth 02 08 12.43 1943 WSA (A. H. Bull & Co, NY)
1959 Scrapped Baltimore
Louis McLane 03 11 12.42 1966 Scrapped New Orleans
Louis Marshall 02 08 7.43 1943 WSA (Wessel, Duval & Co, NY)
1948 Laid up Wilmington.
1951 MOUNT OF OLIVES, Eastern Seaways Corp.- US flag (Orion Shpg & Tdg Co, NY)
1952 SEAWIZARD, same owner.
1953 GEORGE M. CULUCUNDIS, Eastern Seaways Corp.- US flag (Mar-Trade Corp, NY)
1954 (Tankship Management Corp, NY)
1956 PACIFIC OCEAN, World Carriers Inc.- US flag (World Tramping Agencies, NY)
1957 Transportation Utilities Inc.- US flag (Phs.van Ommeren Shipping Inc, NY)
1958 (World Tramping Agencies, NY)
1960 MARIA G. L, John G. P. Livanos, Piraeus.- Greek flag.
1962 Elshipper Inc.- Greek flag (Ceres Hellenic Shipping Enterprises, Piraeus)
14.3.64 Aground near Yokohama at 34.53N 139.49E, broke in two and sank
Louis Pasteur 13 18 12.43 1943 WSA (Agwilines Inc, NY)
1947 Societa Raffaele Romano e Pasquale Mazzella, Naples.- Italian flag.
1963 STELLA AZZURRA, Cia.Armatoriale Italiana, Venice - Italian flag (W. Runciman & Co, London)
1967 Scrapped Venice.
Louis Sloss 14 11 4.44 Laid up Beaumont, Tex.
1971 Scrapped Brownsville, Tex.
Louis Sullivan 14 11 4.44 1970 Scrapped Mobile
Louis Weule 14 11 3.44 1967 Scrapped Portland, Ore.
Louisa M. Alcott 02 08 6.42 Laid up James River.
1970 Scrapped Bilbao
Lucien B. Maxwell 17 07 10.43 1943 WSA
6.8.45 Aground in Seine Estuary, broke in two and sank into quicksands. Total loss.
Lucien La Baudt 14 18 4.44 1944 WSA (Pacific-Atlantic SS Co, Portland, Ore)
1946 States SS Co, Vancouver, Wash.- US flag
1947 CALIFORNIA, same owners.
1949 PACIFICUS, Universal Cargo Carriers Corp.- US flag (Orion Shpg & Tdg Co, NY)
1953 Pacificus SS Co, Wilmington, Del.- US flag (Suwannee SS Co, Jacksonville)
1956 Universal Cargo Carriers Corp.- US flag (Orion Shpg & Tdg Co, NY)
1957 Intercontinental Liberties Inc.- US flag ((Maritime Overseas Corp, NY)
1960 (Orion Shpg & Tdg Co, NY)
1962 SMITH CONQUEROR, Conqueror Freighters Inc.- US flag (Earl J. Smith & Co, NY)
1965 U.S. CONQUEROR, (U.S. Bulk Carriers Inc, NY)
1967 MARIETTA, Cia.Marietta Nav., Hong Kong & Panama - Panamanian flag.
1969 Scrapped Taiwan.
Lucius Fairchild 12 10 11.43 1943 WSA (Wilmore SS Co, Boston)
1946 WSA (W. J. Rountree & Co, NY)
1947 BERLAGE, Netherlands Gov't (Koninlijke Java-China-Paket Lijnen, Amsterdam)
1950 AMSTELVAART, Amsterdam N.V. Reederij, Amsterdam - Netherlands flag.
1960 COSMOPOLITAN, Cosmopolitan Nav.Co - Panamanian flag (Great Southern SS Co, Hong Kong)
1964 VIGILANT, Vigilant Nav.Corp.- Panamanian flag (Union Marine Industries, NY)
1968 Scrapped Taiwan.
Lucius Q. C. Lamar 04 07 3.43 1967 Scrapped Tacoma
Lucretia Mott 12 10 3.43 1968 Scrapped Kearny, NJ.
Lucy Stone 14 18 3.43 Laid up Mobile
1972 Scrapped Brownsville, Tex.
Luis Arguello 03 08 12.42 1960 Scrapped Kure
Lunsford Richardson 05 08 9.44 1944 WSA (W. J. Rountree Co Inc)
1961 Scrapped Philadelphia
Luther Burbank 14 11 4.43 1943 ERIDANUS (AK92), US Navy
1946 LUTHER BURBANK, WSA laid up.
1947 PANAGIOTIS, John G.P.Livanos, Athens- Greek flag.
15.11.55 Aground Kunsan, Korea, broke her back. CTL.
1956 Both parts refloated and rejoined at Tokio, lengthened (7,321 g.t.)
1957 SILLA, Far Eastern Marine Transport Co, Inchon - South Korean flag.
1961 (Pacific Far East Line, San Francisco)
1972 Scrapped Masan, South Korea. 
Luther Martin 02 19 7.42 Laid up Mobile
1971 Scrapped Panama City
Luther S. Kelly 14 18 7.43 1943 WSA (W.S.Chamberlain & Co, San Francisco)
1946 WSA (Dichmann, Wright & Pugh, Norfolk, Va)
1947 GIOACCHINO LAURO, Achille Lauro, Naples - Italian flag.
1968 Scrapped Spezia.
Luzon 02 08 5.43 See SAMUEL BOWLES
Lydia M. Child 03 11 3.43 1943 WSA (McCormick SS Co, San Francisco)
27.4.43 Torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I.178 off Australia at 33.08S 153.24E.
Lyman Abbott 18 09 5.43 1943 WSA (International Freighting Corp, NY)
Laid up Mobile
1970 Scrapped Mobile
Lyman Beecher 08 11 12.42 1942 WSA (American-Hawaiian SS Co, San Francisco)
1946 US War Dep't, loaned to Chinese Gov't renamed HAI CHEN (China Merchants S.N.Co)
1947 China Merchants S.N.Co.- Chinese flag.
1951 ASIAN, Panoceanica Soc.Arm, Panama - Panamanian flag. (A. Lusi Ltd, London)
1960 Greek flag.
1965 (J. C. Carras & Sons, London)
1967 Scrapped Taiwan.
Lyman Hall 16 08 4.43 1963 Scrapped Philadelphia
Lyman J. Gage 13 11 2.43 1944 CHELEB (AK138), US Navy
1946 USMC laid up Suisun Bay
1978 Reported scrapped San Jose, Cal.
Lyman Stewart 03 11 5.43 1943 WSA (Pacific Far East Line, San Francisco)
1970 Scrapped Panama City
Lyon G. Tyler 02 08 10.43 See SAMNEBRA
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