LIBERTY SHIPS - N - O


NAME
BL'DR
ENG
COMP.
HISTORY
Nachman Syrkin 04 11 1.45 1945 WSA (Norton Lilly Management Co, NY)
1946 WSA (W.J.Rountree & Co, NY)
1949 Laid up Astoria.
1951 SEAMYSTERY, Universal Cargo Carriers Corp.- US flag (Orion Shpg & Trdg Co, NY)
1953 KATINA, San Bernardo Cia.Nav.- Panamanian flag (same managers)
1959 THEOMANA, Fiadora Cia.Nav.- Panamanian flag (Spiros Polemis Sons, NY & London)
1967 Scrapped Hong Kong.
Nakhodka 12 10 6.43 Launched as IRVING W. PRATT, completed as -
NAKHODA, U.S.S.R. flag.
1968 Reported scrapped U.S.S.R.
Nancy Hanks 14 11 2.43 1958 Scrapped Baltimore
Napoleon B. Boward 15 08 12.43 1943 MATAR (AK119), US Navy
1946 laid up Pearl Harbor.
1947 USMC laid up Suisun Bay.
1972 Scrapped Richmond, Cal.
Narcissa Whitman 12 10 1.44 1961 Scrapped Portland, Ore.
Nathan B. Forest 06 08 12.43 Army Tank Transport.
Laid up James River
1972 Sold to Dutch buyers.
1973 Scrapped Burriana, Spain.
Nathan Clifford 02 06 3.43 1943 WSA (American Foreign SS Corp, NY)
1947 AMERICAN ORIOLE, American Foreign SS Corp, NY- US flag.
1957 ATLANTIC ORIOLE, Atlantic Oriole SS Co.- Liberian flag  (American Foreign SS Corp, NY)
1961 KYMA, Marsuerte Cia.Nav.S.A, Panama- Liberian flag (Maritime Managers Co, NY)
1964 (Admanthos Shipping Agency, NY)
1965 TASSIA, same owners - Greek flag.
1965 A.A Catsogeorgis & Co, Piraeus.- Greek flag.
9.5.65 Sank near Cape Race at 36.36N 51.24W after developing leaks.
Nathan Hale 03 11 5.42 5.2.46 Mined and damaged off Gorgona, Italy. CTL, laid up Genoa.
1949 Scrapped Savona.
Nathan S. Davis 14 10 2.44 1944 WSA (United States Lines, NY)
1947 GIACOMO FASSIO, Soc.Anon.Italiana di Nav.Mercantile, Genoa.- Italian flag.
1949 Villain & Fassio Soc.Italiana di Nav Mercantile per Azioni, Genoa.- Italian flag.
1962 Scrapped Spezia.
Nathan Towson 02 08 7.43 Laid up James River                                 *
Nathanael Greene  11 07 2.42 1942 WSA (United States Lines, NY)
23.2.43 Torpedoed and sunk by U.565 off Oran, Algeria.
Nathaniel Alexander 11 08 10.42 1942 WSA (Merchants & Miners Transp.Co, Baltimore)
1947 SOLFA, Skibs A/S Senita (H. Rich.Aass, Oslo)- Norwegian flag.
1948 Einar Rasmussen, Kristiansand- Norwegian flag.
1950 NORSE LADY, Rederi A/S Norde Lady (Odd Godager, Oslo)- Norwegian flag.
1953 DANIO, Dann's Skibs A/S, Vivi & Skibs, Sjofna (Clemeth Dann, Oslo)- Norwegian flag.
1962 TROYAN, Cia.Santa Marigo, Panama- Lebanese flag. (Wigham Richardson & Co, London)
1967 Scrapped Singapore after hull fractures.
Nathaniel B. Palmer 03 11 11.43 Tanker
1943 CARIBOU (IX114), US Navy
1946 NATHANIEL B. PALMER, WSA
1948 Palmer Shipping Corp, Wilmington, Del.- US flag.
1949 Converted to 7,210 g,t, dry cargo ship.
21.5.52 Grounded in Martin Garcia Channel, refloated but CTL.
1953 MANOLITO, Olmeda Cia.Nav, Panama.- Costa Rican flag (Marcou & Sons, London) Repaired and resumed service.
1960 MANEGINA, Panvia Cia.Nav., Panama - Lebanese flag. (same managers)
1962 Scrapped Savona, Italy.
Nathaniel Bacon 01 01 10.42 1942 WSA (International Freighting Corp, NY)
24.11.42 Beached after collision with ESSO BELGIUM in New York harbour, later repaired
19.12.45 Mined off Civitavecchia, beached at 42.23N 26.30E, CTL
1946 Stern section sold Italian breakers for scrap, forepart scrapped in situ.
1950 Stern part sold and joined to forepart of 
BERT WILLIAMS. New vessel renamed -
1951 BOCCADASSE, Industriale Maritima SpA, Genoa- Italian flag.
1962 Scrapped Spezia.
Nathaniel Bowditch 14 11 11.42 1960 Scrapped Oakland, Cal.
Nathaniel Crosby 12 10 9.43 1970 Scrapped Portland, Ore.
Nathaniel Currier 13 18 3.43 Laid up Mobile
1971 Scrapped Panama City
Nathaniel Hawthorne 12 08 5.42 1942 WSA (Pacific Atlantic SS Co, Portland, Ore)
7.11.42 Torpedoed and sunk by U.508 off Trinidad at 11.34N 63.26W
Nathaniel J. Wyeth 12 10 3.43 1943 DE GRASSE (AP164), US Navy
1945 DE GRASSE (AK223), US Navy
1946 NATHANIEL J. WYETH, WSA laid up Suisun Bay.
1970 Scrapped Oakland, Cal.
Nathaniel Macon 11 08 1.43 1943 WSA (A. H. Bull & Co, NY)
1947 EVGENIA CHANDRIS, Evgenia J. Chandris, Piraeus - Greek flag.
17.8.52 Stranded Aleutian Islands at 51.15N 179.07W, badly damaged, reached Victoria, CTL
1953 WILLIAM V. S. TUBMAN, Seatankers Inc, Monrovia.- Liberian flag.
1954 Rebuilt to 8,582 g.t.
1959 PENN VANGUARD, Penn Marine Co.Inc.- US flag. (Penn Shpg.Co, NY)
1969 Scrapped Taiwan.
Nathaniel Scudder 17 18 6.44 1944 ALFRED J. LYON,
1944 BRIGADIER GENERAL ALFRED J. LYON, US Army. Aircraft repair ship.
1964 Converted to depot ship at Portland, Ore.
Nathaniel Silsbee 17 11 6.44 Laid up Beaumont, Tex.
1972 Scrapped Brownsville, Tex.
Navarchos Koundouriotis 17 08 11.44 See CYRIL G. HOPKINS
Negley D. Cochran 15 08 9.44 1944 WSA (Smith & Johnson, NY)
1946 WSA (States Marine Corp, NY)
1947 GLOBAL TRADER, Global Transport Ltd.- Panamanian flag.
1947 SURNA, Skibs A/S Akershus (Gorrissen & Co, Oslo)- Norwegian flag.
1958 (Torvald Klaveness Rederi A/S, Oslo)
1959 MARINGA, Namdal Shpg & Tdg.Co.- Liberian flag (Carl Aune & Cia, Rio de Janeiro)
1960 Companhia Nav.e Comercio Pan-Americana, Rio de Janeiro- Brazilian flag.
16.6.69 Sank off Brazil at 11.30S 37.15W
Nelson Dingley 10 17 7.43 1943 WSA (States Marine Corp, NY)
1947 ITALTERRA, Soc.Commerciale di Nav, Genoa. Italian flag.
1953 Converted to motor ship.
1965 BAYPORT, Lloyd's Africa Ltd.- Liberian flag (Transamerican SS Corp, NY)
1972 Scrapped Santander.
Nelson W. Aldrich 18 08 4.44 1968 Scrapped Kearny, NJ.
Newton D. Baker 06 08 4.43 1968 Scrapped Panama City
Nicholas Biddle 02 19 9.42 1963 Scrapped Beaumont, Tex.
Nicholas D. Labadie 17 10 5.44 1962 Scrapped Mobile
Nicholas Gilman 17 08 8.42 1963 Scrapped Philadelphia
Nicholas Herkimer 16 17 7.43 1967 Scrapped Green Cove Springs, Fla.
Nicholas J. Sinnott 12 10 6.43 1943 WSA (James Griffiths & Sons, Seattle)
1946 US War Dep't
1946 HAI CHIAO, Lease lend to Chinese Gov't.
1947 China Merchants S.N.Co.- Chinese flag.
1962 Nationalist Chinese flag.
1965 Taiwan flag
1966 Scrapped Taiwan
Nicholas Longworth 03 11 12.43 Tanker
1943 IBEX (IX119), US Navy.
1946 NICHOLAS LONGWORTH, WSA.
1948 HELEN STEVENSON, T. J. Stevenson & Co, NY.- US flag. Converted to 7,219 g.t. dry cargo.
1957 ELDERFIELDS, Elderfields SS Co.- Liberian flag (Ocean Freighting & Brokerage Corp, NY)
1961 WINNER, Marine Development & Supply S.A, Panama.- Liberian flag (Marine Industry Corp, Hong Kong)
10.9.65 Ashore at Wakayama in typhoon, refloated but CTL.
1966 Scrapped Hirao.
Nick Stoner 06 08 6.44 1964 Scrapped Panama City
Niels Poulson 05 08 8.44 1944 WSA (Dichmann, Wright & Pugh, NY)
14.9.46 Mined off Gorgona, Italy, towed to Leghorn but CTL.
1948 Scrapped Genoa.
Niki 15 08 1.45 Launched as JAMES H. COURTS, lease lend to Greek Gov't. renamed NIKI.
1946 Kassos S.N.Co, Syra - Greek flag (Rethymnis & Kulukundis, London)
1947 HADIOTIS, same owner.
1965 ACHILLES, Cia.Nav.Tierra del Fuego, Panama - Greek flag (Counties Shpg.Ltd, London)
21.11.65 Aground Muroran when anchor chain broke, refloated but CTL.
1966 Scrapped Osaka
Nikola Tesler 02 09 10.43 See SAMKANSA
Noah Brown 15 11 6.44 1944 WSA (Seas Shipping Co, NY)
1946 WSA (T.J.Stevenson & Co, NY)
1947 Bulk Carriers Corp.NY.- US flag.
1949 HENRY STEVENSON, same owners.
1955 ALDERSHOT, Aldershot SS Corp.- Liberian flag (Ocean Freighting & Brokerage Corp, NY)
1960 KAROLINA, Regina SS Corp.- Greek flag (same managers)
1963 VRONTADOS PIONEER, Adriatic Maritime Co.- Liberian flag (Pacific SS Agency, NY)
1966 Cosmic Freighters Ltd.- Liberian flag (same managers)
1969 Scrapped Gandia, Spain.
Noah H. Swayne 13 11 11.42 1942 ARIDED (AK73), US Navy
1946 WSA, laid up
1947 laid up Suisun Bay
1962 Scrapped Terminal Island
Noah Webster 09 05 2.43 Laid up Mobile
1976 Scuttled as artificial fish reef off Alabama coast.
Norman E. Mack 14 18 10.43 Laid up Mobile.
1971 Scrapped Panama City
Norman Hapgood 14 18 10.43 1943 WSA (Sudden & Christenson, San Francisco)
1947 NEREIDE, Soc.di Nav.Italia, Genoa.- Italian flag.
1972 Laid up Trieste.
1973 Scrapped Vado, Italy.
Norman J. Colman 14 11 5.44 Laid up James River
1971 Scrapped Valencia.
Norman O. Pedrick 04 10 2.44 Tanker
1944 STAG (IX 128) US Navy
1944 STAG (AW1), US Navy
1946 WSA, laid up James River
1970 Scrapped Burriana, Spain.
Novorossisk 12 10 5.43 Launched as EDWARD EGGLESTONE
1943 NOVOROSSISK, U.S.S.R. flag.
1974 Reported scrapped U.S.S.R.
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O. B. Martin 17 10 5.44 Laid up Suisun Bay.
1973 Scrapped Taiwan
O. Henry 13 11 9.42 1962 Scrapped Mobile
O. L. Bodenhamer 04 11 8.44 Laid up Mobile
1976 Scuttled as artificial fish reef off Miami.
Oahu 02 08 9.43 See CALEB C. WHEELER
Oakley Wood 02 13 6.44 1944 WSA (American West African Line, NY)
1946 WSA (States Marine Corp, NY)
1947 KEYSTONE STATE, States Marine Corp.of Delaware. (States Marine Corp, NY)
1955 GEORGES FRIBOURG, United SS Corp.- Panamanian flag. (Arrow SS Co, NY)
1957 MAGALLANES, Magallanes Cia.Armadora.- Panamanian flag (Mavroleon Bros, London)
1959 ALEXANDER S.M, Fairseas Freighters Corp.- Liberian flag (World Seas Shipping Co, NY)
1966 THIMAR S, same owner.
23.6.67 Aground near Sarawak 02.58N 108.40E, total loss.
Odessa 13 11 5.43 Built as MARY CASSATT
1943 ODESSA, U.S.S.R. flag
1977 Far Eastern Shipping Co, Vladivostok.
1982 U.S.S.R.Ministry of Fisheries? Used for storage at Vladivostok.
2003 Still afloat at Vladivostok.
Ole Bull 11 08 5.43 Built as SALLIE S. COTTEN
1943 WSA (International Freighting Corp, NY)
1943 OLE BULL, Lease lend to Norwegian Gov't.
1946 Smedvig Tankrederi A/S (Peder Smedvig, Stavanger) - Norwegian flag.
1959 SOUTH RIVER, Cia.Atlantica Pacifica- Panamanian flag 
1965 KRONOS, Kronos Shpg.Co.- Liberian flag (Dynamic Shipping Co, NY)
1967 Scrapped Tsuneishi, Japan.
Ole E. Rolvaag 14 11 6.43 Laid up James River.
1971 Scrapped Bilbao
Oliver Ellsworth 02 04 6.42 1942 WSA (Agwilines Inc, NY)
13.9.42 Torpedoed and sunk by U.408 in Geenland Sea at 76.10N 10.05E.
Oliver Evans 14 11 5.43 1959 Scrapped Portland, Maine.
Oliver Hazard Perry 03 11 5.42 Laid up Beaumont, Tex.
1971 Scrapped Brownsville, Tex.
Oliver Kelley 14 11 1.44 1969 Scrapped Seattle
Oliver Loving 17 18 6.44 1970 Scrapped New Orleans
Oliver Wendell Holmes 12 08 5.42 1970 Scrapped New Orleans
Oliver Westover 09 08 5.45 1946 Lease lend to French Gov't.
1947 SETE, French Gov't (Cie.de Nav.Paquet, Marseilles)
1948 (Cie.de Nav.Fraissinet, Marseilles)
1955 (Cie.de Nav.Fraissinet et Cyprien Fabre)
1964 (Cie.Fabre Soc.Generale de Transports Maritimes, Marseilles)
1968 ALLISON, Soc.Maritime de Gerance et d'Armement.- Monaco flag (P.G.Troianos, Monte Carlo & Paris)
1968 Scrapped Hirao.
Oliver Wolcott 14 11 8.42 1961 Scrapped Oakland, Cal.
Omar E. Chapman 09 09 10.43 Laid up James River
1972 Scrapped Castellon
Opie Read 04 10 12.43 Tanker
1943 PANDA (IX125), US Navy
1946 OPIE READ, WSA.
1948 WESTPORT, Eastport SS Co, NY.- US flag.
Converted to 7,257 g.t. dry cargo
1954 PARDALINA, Cia.Nav.Pardalina.- Liberian flag (Blidberg Rothchild Agency, NY)
1963 SAN ANTONIO, Caroline Navigation Inc.- Liberian flag. (Ceres Shipping Co, London)
1968 Scrapped Hirao.
Opole 11 08 5.43 See WALTER HINES PAGE
Ora Ellis 06 07 9.45 Boxed Aircraft Transport
1945 WSA (Polarus SS Co, NY)
1947 CORAL SEA, Coral SS Corp, NY.- US flag
1951 SEACORAL, (Orion Shpg & Tdg.Co, NY)
1954 Coral Cia.Armadora, Panama.- Liberian flag (same managers)
1955 Rebuilt to 8,577 g.t. ore carrier.
1957 ANDROS CORAL, same owners.
18.5.60 Aground Dona Sebastiana Island, Chacao Channel, sank and total loss.
Orel 14 11 5.43 Built as CHARLES E. DURYEA
1943 Completed as OREL, U.S.S.R.
1949 IVAN POLZUNOV, U.S.S.R.
1973 Reported scrapped U.S.S.R.
1977 Deleted from Lloyds Register.
Oran M. Roberts 17 18 8.43 Laid up Mobile
1974 Scuttled as artificial fish reef off Alabama coast.
Orland Loomis 03 11 12.43 Laid up James River
1972 Scrapped Philadelphia
Orson D. Munn 03 11 10.43 Tanker
1943 WSA (Union Oil Co.of California, Los Angeles)
1948 HALCYON III, Phoenix SS Corp.- US flag (Orion Shpg & Tdg Co, NY) Converted to 7,156 g.t. dry cargo ship.
1952 GAVRION, Coruna Cia.Nav.- Panamanian flag (same managers)
1957 LILLA, same owners.
1960 SYRA, Syra Compania Maritima.- Greek flag (Trans-Ocean SS Agency, NY)
1962 Rebuilt to 8,634 g.t.
17.7.64 Aground Callao, Peru at 06.07S 81.06W, refloated but CTL.
1965 Scrapped Bilbao, Spain.
Orville P. Taylor 02 08 9.43 See SAMOTHRACE
Oscar Chappell 17 07 11.43 1958 Scrapped Baltimore
Oscar F. Barrett 03 11 10.43 Tanker
1943 WSA (American Republic Corp, Houston)
1948 PACO, Paco Tankers Inc.- US flag (Keystone Shipping Co, Philadelphia)
1954 GAYETY, Theatre Nav.Corp.- Liberian flag (Rector Shipping Co, NY) Converted to molasses tanker.
1955 San Rafael Cia.Nav, Panama.- Liberian flag (Orion Shpg & Tdg.Co, NY) 
1955 APOLLONIUS, Converted to 7,267 g.t. dry cargo ship.
1956 Rebuilt to 8,394 g.t. ore carrier.
1957 ANDROS CHAMPION, same owner.
1960 PAGASTIKOS, Overseas Carrier Corp.- Greek flag. (same managers)
1962 PORTORAFTI, Portorafti Cia.Mar, Panama.- Greek flag (Trans Ocean SS Agency, NY)
1964 NAVIA, Argus Nav.Corp, Lugano.- Liberian flag.
1971 Scrapped Split.
Oscar S. Straus 04 07 11.43 Tanker
1943 WSA (Spencer Kellogg & Sons, NY)
1946 WSA (Keystone Shipping Corp, Philadelphia)
1948 Chas Kurz & Co.- US flag (Keystone Shipping Corp, Philadelphia)
1949 Converted to molasses tanker.
1955 AMERICUS, San Rafael Cia.Nav, Panama.- Liberian flag (Orion Shpg & Tdg.Co, NY) Converted to dry cargo ship.
1955 Converted to 8,462 g.t. ore carrier.
1957 ANDROS NAVIGATOR, same owners.
1960 LADON, Islanders Shipping Corp.- Greek flag (same managers)
1962 ARIETTA, Argre Cia.Nav, Panama.- Greek flag (Trans-Ocean SS Agency, NY)
1967 POPEYE, Pacific Coast Shipping Co.- Liberian flag (Lasco Shipping Co, Portland, Ore)
1970 Scrapped Pusan, South Korea.
Oscar Underwood 03 11 2.44 1944 WSA (Seas Shipping Co, NY)
1947 HELLENIC BEACH, Hellenic Lines Ltd, Piraeus & NY.- Greek flag.
1953 (P. G. Callimanopulos)
1972 Scrapped Turkey.
Otis E. Hall 17 08 11.44 1968 Scrapped Oakland, Cal.
Otis Skinner 13 18 1.44 1944 WSA (American-Hawaiian SS Co, San Francisco)
1947 VALHALL, D/S A/S Anglo (Valdemar Skogland, Haugesund)- Norwegian flag.
1965 SIMONE, Groborg Shpg.Corp, Lugano.- Liberian flag.
1967 Scrapped Castellon, Spain
Otto Mears 14 18 10.43 1943 WSA (Matson Navigation Co, San Francisco)
1946 US War Dep't.
1947 NAPOLI, Tirrenia Soc.Anon.di Nav, Naples- Italian flag.
1948 POSILLIPO, same owners.
1952 Giacomo Costa fu Andrea, Genoa.- Italian flag
1954 FEDERICO COSTA, same owners.
1956 BIANCA C, same owners.
1957 BICE COSTA, same owners.
1960 ENOSIS, Enosis Maritime S.A.- Lebanese flag (A. Angelicoussis & D. Efthimiou, Piraeus)
22.11.67 Aground on fire Thailand at 07.52N 98.56E, refloated, towed to Peneng and fire extinguished but CTL.
26.1.68 Towed Singapore and scrapped at Jurong.
Ovid Butler 14 11 6.44 1965 Scrapped New Orleans
Owen Summers 12 10 2.43 1961 Scrapped Baltimore
Owen Wister 15 08 12.43 1964 Scrapped Portland, Ore.
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