George Calvert (1942)

Type:
Liberty
Class:
Builder:
Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard Inc.
Baltimore, Maryland
MCE Hull Number:
29
Ordered:
N/A
Launched:
March 14, 1942
Keel Laid:
November 19, 1941
Delivered:

April 30, 1942
Fate:
Sunk May 20, 1942 by U-753 (torpedo).

Location: Gulf of Mexico, 31 miles north northwest of Dimas, Cuba.
(22.55N - 84.26W)

3 crewmen killed, 47 survivors landed at Dimas, Cuba the next morning.


Operator
A. H. Bull Inc.
New York, New York




Captains
From
To
Name
May 1942
May 20, 1942
Severin Broadwick


Notes:
On maiden voyage (Baltimore, Maryland - Bandar Shapur, Iran) when lost.


No Photo Available
Builder's Data
Page published May 20, 2009