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| Name | Zachary Taylor |
| Namesake | Zachary Taylor |
| Builder | Richmond Shipyards,Richmond, California |
| Yard number | 44 |
| Way number | 7 |
| Laid down | 6 October 1941 |
| Launched | 28 February 1942 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1961 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Liberty ship |
| Tonnage | 7,000 long tonsdeadweight (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) |
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| Speed | 11knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Capacity | 9,140 tons cargo |
| Complement | 41 |
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SSZachary Taylor (MC contract 244) was aLiberty ship built in the United States duringWorld War II. She was named afterZachary Taylor, the twelfthPresident of the United States.
The ship was laid down byPermanente Metals in theirRichmond Yard #2 on 6 October 1941, then launched on 28 February 1942. After the war she went on to suffer the same fate as most of the other surviving Liberty ships: she was scrapped in 1961.[1]
After the end of World War II,Zachary Taylor was used to bring displaced European immigrants (mostly Jews) to New York City.[citation needed]. She docked atBrooklyn, New York at theBrooklyn Army Terminal on 19 September 1949.[citation needed]
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