SS M. E. Comerford
SS M. E. Comerford was a Liberty ship built in Brunswick, Georgia, during World War II. Named after Michael Comerford, who ran Comerford Theatres in Pennsylvania and New York, the ship was laid down on 10 November 1944 under a MARCOM contract and built by J. A. Jones Construction. The vessel was sponsored by Mrs. M. E. Comerford, launched on 12 December 1944, and completed on 20 December 1944. It was allocated to Merchants & Miners Transportation Company.
As an EC2-S-C1 Liberty ship, M. E. Comerford was about 441 feet 6 inches long, 57 feet wide, and drafted about 27 feet 9 inches. It could carry roughly 10,865 long tons of grain or 7,176 gross tons. The ship had two oil-fired boilers and a single triple-expansion steam engine powering one propeller, for a speed of about 11.5 knots. The crew typically consisted of 38–62 merchant mariners. Armament varied, with small guns installed for defense.
After World War II, the Comerford was placed in the National Defense Reserve Fleet: at Suisun Bay, California, on 8 October 1948, and later at Olympia, Washington, on 21 August 1952. In 1954, it joined the Grain Program, loading grain in April and unloading in May 1957, returning to reserve empty later that month.
The ship was sold for scrapping in January 1970 to Zidell Exploration Co., Ltd., and was removed from the fleet on 16 January 1970.
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