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| '''SS ''Harriet Tubman''''' ([[Maritime Commission|MC]] contract 3032) was a [[Liberty ship]] built in the [[United States]] during [[World War II]]. She was named after [[Harriet Tubman]], an [[African-American]] abolitionist and spy during the [[American Civil War]], and was the first Liberty ship to be named for an African-American woman.<ref name="Larson132">{{cite book |title=Harriet Tubman: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works |first=Kate Clifford |last=Larson |author-link=Kate Larson (historian) |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |date=2022 |isbn=978-1-5381-1356-1 |page=132}}</ref> | '''SS ''Harriet Tubman''''' ([[Maritime Commission|MC]] contract 3032) was a [[Liberty ship]] built in the [[United States]] during [[World War II]]. She was named after [[Harriet Tubman]], an [[African-American]] abolitionist and spy during the [[American Civil War]], and was the first Liberty ship to be named for an African-American woman.<ref name="Larson132">{{cite book |title=Harriet Tubman: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works |first=Kate Clifford |last=Larson |author-link=Kate Larson (historian) |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |date=2022 |isbn=978-1-5381-1356-1 |page=132}}</ref> |
| The ship was laid down by the [[New England Shipbuilding Corporation|South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation]], [[South Portland, Maine]], on 19 April 1944, then launched on 3 June 1944. Twenty-two members of Tubman's extended family attended the launch. Eva Stuart Northrup, Tubman's great-niece, christened the ship.<ref name="Larson132"/> The ship survived the war only to suffer the same fate as nearly all other Liberty ships that survived did; she was scrapped in 1972.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/emergencylarge/newengland.htm |title=New England Shipbuilding Company, South Portland ME |year=2010 |work=shipbuildinghistory.com |access-date=16 December 2009}}</ref> | The ship was laid down by the [[New England Shipbuilding Corporation|South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation]], [[South Portland, Maine]], on 19 April 1944, then launched on 3 June 1944. Twenty-two members of Tubman's extended family attended the launch. Eva Stuart Northrup, Tubman's great-niece, christened the ship.<ref name="Larson132"/> The ship survived the war only to suffer the same fate as nearly all other Liberty ships that survived did; she was scrapped in 1972.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/emergencylarge/newengland.htm |title=New England Shipbuilding Company, South Portland ME |year=2010 |work=shipbuildinghistory.com |access-date=16 December 2009 |archive-date=3 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2017030...y.com/shipyards/emergencylarge/newengland.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> |
| == References == | == References == |
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