SS Rebecca Lukens
The SS Rebecca Lukens was one of the famous Liberty Ships used during World War II.
Although British in conception, the U.S. adapted the simple, low cost design for the
War. Mass produced on an unprecedented scale, it came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial
production. Eighteen American shipyards built 2,710 Liberty Ships between 1941 and
1945, easily the largest number of ships produced to a single design. In 2015, only
two Liberty Ships remain as operational museum ships. The Rebecca Lukens was scrapped
in 1970.
- Type: Cargo Ship
- Length: 441 ft
- Displacement: 14,474 tons
- Beam: 57 ft
- Launched: March 4, 1944