SS Russell A. Alger

History
Name: SS Russell A. Alger
Namesake: Russell A. Alger
Builder: Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, Portland, Oregon
Yard number: 680
Status: Cancelled
General characteristics
Type: Liberty ship
Tonnage: 7,000 long tons deadweight (DWT)
Length: 441 ft 6 in (134.57 m)
Beam: 56 ft 11 in (17.35 m)
Draft: 27 ft 9 in (8.46 m)
Propulsion:
  • Two oil-fired boilers
  • Triple-expansion steam engine
  • Single screw
  • 2,500 hp (1,864 kW)
Speed: 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Capacity: 9,140 tons cargo
Complement: 41
Armament:
  • 1 × Stern-mounted 4 in (100 mm) deck gun
  • AA guns

SS Russell A. Alger (MC contract 1754) was a Liberty ship that was supposed to be built in the United States during World War II. She was intended to be named after Russell A. Alger, a Michigan Senator, Governor and U.S. Secretary of War.

Ordered from the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, Portland, Oregon, the ship was cancelled before construction.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Kaiser Oregon Shipbuilding". shipbuildinghistory.com. Retrieved 2014-06-08.


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