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| Name | John Hay |
| Namesake | John Hay |
| Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
| Operator | A.H. Bull & Co., Inc. |
| Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull,MC hull 1525 |
| Builder | J.A. Jones Construction,Panama City, Florida |
| Cost | $1,859,804[1] |
| Yard number | 7 |
| Way number | 1 |
| Laid down | 5 January 1943 |
| Launched | 31 May 1943 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. L.R. Sanford |
| Completed | 30 June 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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SSJohn Hay was aLiberty ship built in theUnited States duringWorld War II. She was named afterJohn Hay,private secretary and assistant toAbraham Lincoln, the 12thUnited States Assistant Secretary of State,United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, andUnited States Secretary of State under PresidentsWilliam McKinley andTheodore Roosevelt.
John Hay was laid down on 5 January 1943, under aMaritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 1525, byJ.A. Jones Construction,Panama City, Florida; she was sponsored by Mrs. L.R. Sanford, wife MARCOM regional director ship construction Gulf-Coast, and launched on 31 May 1943.[3][1]
She was allocated toA.H. Bull & Co., Inc., on 30 June 1943. On 12 February 1946, she was laid up in theNational Defense Reserve Fleet, in theSuisun Bay Group. On 16 May 1955, she was withdrawn from the fleet to be loaded with grain under the "Grain Program 1955", she transferred, loaded with grain, to the National Defense Reserve Fleet, inOlympia, Washington, on 29 June 1955. She was withdrawn from the fleet on 23 June 1957, to have the grain unloaded, she returned empty on 28 June 1957. On 15 December 1960, she was sold for $54,031.33 toCommercial Metals Co., for scrapping. She was removed from the fleet on 11 January 1960.[4][5]
