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| Name | Dwight W. Morrow |
| Namesake | Dwight W. Morrow |
| Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
| Operator | Sprague Steamship Co. |
| Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull,MC hull 1206 |
| Builder | St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company,Jacksonville, Florida[1] |
| Cost | $1,766,458[2] |
| Yard number | 14 |
| Way number | 2 |
| Laid down | 5 July 1943 |
| Launched | 21 September 1943 |
| Sponsored by | Elizabeth Cutter Morrow |
| Completed | 5 October 1943 |
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| Beam | 57 feet (17 m) |
| Draft | 27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m) |
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| Speed | 11.5knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
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SSDwight W. Morrow was aLiberty ship built in theUnited States duringWorld War II. She was named afterDwight W. Morrow, an American businessman, diplomat, and politician. Morrow was a partner inJ.P. Morgan & Co., served asUnited States Ambassador to Mexico from 1927–1930, and was aUS Senator fromNew Jersey from 1930–1931.
Dwight W. Morrow was laid down on 5 July 1943, under aMaritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 1206, by theSt. Johns River Shipbuilding Company,Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored byElizabeth Cutter Morrow, the widow of the namesake, she was launched on 21 September 1943.[1][2]
She was allocated toSprague Steamship Co., on 5 October 1943. On 13 October 1945, she was laid up in theNational Defense Reserve Fleet,Mobile, Alabama, with an estimated $37,500 in damage. She was laid up in the, National Defense Reserve Fleet,Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Wilmington, North Carolina, 28 August 1948. She was sold for scrapping, on 4 April 1968, toUnion Minerals and Alloys Corporation. She was listed as removed from the fleet on 16 May 1968. A telegram dated 27 February 1970, declares that she wasn't removed until this date, and sold to Horton Industries, Inc. The telegram goes on to say that with the removal ofDwight W. Morrow, the last ship remaining at Wilmington, the service of theAtlantic Reserve Fleet, Wilmington was complete after twenty-three and a half years.[4]
