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USAT Jason Lee
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History
Name USAT Jason Lee
Owner Army Transportation Service
Builder Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation
Launched 27 Jun 1942
Completed 9 July 1942
Out of service March 1967
Fate Scapped 1967
General characteristics
Type Standard Liberty EC2-S-C1
Tonnage 10,865 tons
Length 441 feet 6 inches (135 m)
Beam 57 feet (17 m)
Depth 27 ft 9.25 in (8.465 m)
Propulsion Single screw
Speed 11.5 knots



Remarks

This ship first appeared off the Australian coast in early September 1942, and from that point carried out numerous voyages between northern Queensland ports and New Guinea, with an occasional voyage to Sydney and Brisbane.

Constructed in the Oregon Shipyards owned by the Kaiser Corporation which had seven shipyards that assembled 1,552 vessels out of the 5,601 ships commissioned by the U.S. Maritime Commission between 1939 and 1945. (Additional deliveries for private companies and foreign governments brought wartime production of U.S. shipyards to 5,777 vessels.)

Soldiers carried

Port Moresby to Cairns 21 - 23 January 1943

Main parety of 2/16th Battaliopn, including: