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| Name | Isaac M. Singer |
| Namesake | Isaac M. Singer |
| Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
| Operator | Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. |
| Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull,MC hull 2506 |
| Awarded | 23 April 1943 |
| Builder | St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company,Jacksonville, Florida[1] |
| Cost | $917,824[2] |
| Yard number | 70 |
| Way number | 4 |
| Laid down | 17 October 1944 |
| Launched | 19 November 1944 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. James R.P. Bell, Jr. |
| Completed | 27 November 1944 |
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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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SSIsaac M. Singer was aLiberty ship built in theUnited States duringWorld War II. She was named afterIsaac M. Singer, anAmerican inventor, actor, and businessman. He made important improvements in the design of thesewing machine and was the founder of what became one of the first American multi-national businesses, theSinger Sewing Machine Company.
Isaac M. Singer was laid down on 17 October 1944, under aMaritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2506, by theSt. Johns River Shipbuilding Company,Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored by Mrs. William C. Calvin, the wife of the president of theInternational Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iron Shippbuilders of America, and was launched on 19 November 1944.[1][2]
She was allocated to theMoore-McCormack Lines, Inc., on 27 November 1944. On 20 September 1948, she was laid up in theNational Defense Reserve Fleet,Mobile, Alabama. She was sold for scrapping, along withSS Stephen Furdek, on 13 May 1970, toUnion Minerals & Alloys Corp., for $64,202. She was removed from the fleet, 28 May 1970.[4]
