SS Robert Treat Paine

SS Robert Treat Paine was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Robert Treat Paine, an American lawyer and politician, best known as a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Massachusetts. He served as the state's first attorney general, and served as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court.

History
United States
Name:	Robert Treat Paine
Namesake:	Robert Treat Paine
Owner:	War Shipping Administration (WSA)
Operator:	Agwilines Inc.
Ordered:	as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MCE hull 32
Awarded:	14 March 1941
Builder:	Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland[1]
Cost:	$1,142,364[2]
Yard number:	2019
Way number:	6
Laid down:	6 January 1942
Launched:	28 March 1942
Completed:	5 May 1942
Identification:	Call sign: KETK [2]
Fate:	Sold to France, 10 January 1947
France
Name:	Dieppe
Namesake:	Dieppe
Owner:	France
Operator:	Cie. Generale Transatlantique
Fate:	Sold, 1954
Liberia
Name:	Brother George
Owner:	Garraway S.A
Operator:	Wigham Richardson & Co
Fate:	Grounded, 1964
Status:	Scrapped, 1964
General characteristics [3]
Class and type:	Liberty ship type EC2-S-C1, standard
Tonnage:	10,865 LT DWT 7,176 GRT
Displacement:	3,380 long tons (3,434 t) (light) 14,245 long tons (14,474 t) (max)
Length:	441 feet 6 inches (135 m) oa 416 feet (127 m) pp 427 feet (130 m) lwl
Beam:	57 feet (17 m)
Draft:	27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m)
Installed power:	2 × Oil fired 450 °F (232 °C) boilers, operating at 220 psi (1,500 kPa) 2,500 hp (1,900 kW)
Propulsion:	1 × triple-expansion steam engine,  (manufactured by General Machinery Corp., Hamilton, Ohio) 1 × screw propeller
Speed:	11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)
Capacity:	562,608 cubic feet (15,931 m^3) (grain) 499,573 cubic feet (14,146 m^3) (bale)
Complement:	38–62 USMM 21–40 USNAG
Armament:	Varied by ship Bow-mounted 3 inches (76 mm)/50 caliber gun Stern-mounted 4 inches (102 mm)/50 caliber gun 2–8 × single 20 millimeters (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft (AA) cannons and/or, 2–8 × 37 millimeters (1.46 in) M1 AA guns

Construction

Robert Treat Paine was laid down on 6 January 1942, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MCE hull 32, by the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland; and was launched on 28 March 1942.[1][2]

History

She was allocated to Agwilines Inc., on 5 May 1942. On 10 January 1947, she was sold to for commercial use to France, for $544,506, and renamed Dieppe. In 1954, she was sold and renamed Brother George. In 1964, she was grounded off the Isle of Wight, and scrapped in the Netherlands, the same year.[4]

References

1. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards 2008.
2. MARCOM.
3. Davies 2004, p. 23.
4. MARAD.

Bibliography

• "Bethlehem-Fairfield, Baltimore MD". www.ShipbuildingHistory.com. 14 August 2008. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
• Maritime Administration. "Robert Treat Paine". Ship History Database Vessel Status Card. U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
• Davies, James (May 2004). "Specifications (As-Built)" (PDF). p. 23. Retrieved 21 February 2020.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• "SS Robert Treat Paine". Retrieved 21 February 2020.