SS Patrick Henry
It was built by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at their Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore, Maryland.She was named after Patrick Henry, an American attorney, planter, and Founding Father as well as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and 1784 to 1786.The first of these (with MC hull number 14) was Patrick Henry, launched by President Franklin D.During World War II she made 12 voyages to ports including Murmansk (as part of Convoy PQ 18[6]), Trinidad, Cape Town, Naples, and Dakar.The ship was laid up at National Defense Reserve Fleet, Mobile, Alabama.
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