SS Liberty Glo

{{for|the Bali shipwreck sometimes referred to as "USAT ''Liberty Glo''"|USAT Liberty}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2012}} {{Infobox ship |section1={{Infobox ship/image | image = SS Liberty Glo after mine collision.jpg | image_caption = The aft part of '''SS ''Liberty Glo''''', still afloat after her collision with a mine in December 1919. }}

|section2={{Infobox ship/career | hide_header = | country = | flag = | name = ''Liberty Glo'' | namesake = | owner =*1919: [[U.S. Shipping Board]] *1928: South Atlantic SSC *1936: [[American Foreign Steamship Corporation|American Foreign SSC]] *1947: North Star Co. | operator = | registry = | route = | ordered = | awarded = | builder = American International Shipbuilding Co. | original_cost = | yard_number = 517 | way_number = | laid_down = | launched =14 June 1919 | sponsor = | christened = ''Scooba'' | completed = August 1919 | acquired = | commissioned = | recommissioned = | decommissioned = | maiden_voyage = | in_service = | out_of_service = | renamed =*''Liberty Glo'' 1919 *''North Glow'' 1947 | reclassified = | refit = | struck = | reinstated = | homeport = | identification = | motto = | nickname = | honours = | honors = | captured = | fate = Scrapped at [[Baltimore]], 1950 | notes = | badge = }}

|section3={{Infobox ship/characteristics | hide_header = | header_caption = | class = | type = [[Design 1022 ship|Design 1022]] [[cargo ship]] | tonnage = 7,500 [[deadweight ton|dwt]] | displacement = | length = {{convert|390|ft|m|abbr=on}} | beam = {{convert|54|ft|m|abbr=on}} | height = | draught = | draft = {{convert|27|ft|5|in|m|abbr=on}} | depth = | hold_depth = | decks = | deck_clearance = | ramps = | ice_class = | power = Oil-fired [[steam turbine]]s | propulsion = Single [[propeller|screw]] | sail_plan = | speed = | range = | endurance = | test_depth = | boats = | capacity = | troops = | complement = | crew = | time_to_activate = | sensors = | EW = | armament = | armour = | armor = | aircraft = | aircraft_facilities = | notes = }} }} '''SS ''Liberty Glo''''' (originally ''Scooba'') was built by [[American International Shipbuilding]] at [[Hog Island, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Hog Island]] in [[Philadelphia]] during [[World War I]], but was not completed until after the November 1918 [[Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)|armistice]]. While off the Dutch coast in December 1919, it struck a [[naval mine|mine]] which broke her in two, but the aft part of the vessel remained afloat and was repaired. She served as a civilian cargo ship during World War II and was scrapped in 1950 in Baltimore.

== Early career == Hog Island Hull No. 517 was laid down as SS ''Scooba'' on June 12, 1918 but by the time it was launched on June 14, 1919 it had been renamed SS ''Liberty Glo''. Delivered to the [[United States Shipping Board|U.S. Shipping Board]] on August 2, 1919, she was a [[cargo ship]] of {{GT|5,000}} and {{DWT|7,825|long|disp=long}}, 394 feet (120 m) long and 54 feet (16 m) beam. ''Liberty Glo'' was the 36th [[Hog Islander]] built and one of twelve built as "Type B" troop carriers. (''Liberty Glo'' was not a [[Liberty Ship]], which were a similar concept of vessel built during World War II.)

On December 5, 1919, the ''Liberty Glo'' struck a mine 10 mi (19 km) northwest of [[Terschelling]] on the coast of the [[Netherlands]]. The explosion broke the hull in two from waterline to waterline at number two cargo hold, the deck plates and bulwarks holding the ship together so that, despite the heavy sea running, the captain was able to get it ashore with no casualties and save most of the US$2,000,000 cargo. Captain Stousland paid the following tribute to the Hog Island product: :''She broke close to the rivets but they remained intact, notwithstanding the fact that the number three bulkhead is now the bows and against it the breakers hammered without mercy to my great surprise it remained intact. The ''Liberty Glo'' was built as good as any ship afloat and how she hung together after being cut in two was most remarkable.'' [http://tech.mit.edu/archives/VOL_039/TECH_V039_S0311_P003.txt]

== Later career == On 28 February 1929, ''Liberty Glo'' ran aground off [[Terneuzen]], [[Zeeland]], the [[Netherlands]].<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty Reports |date=1 March 1929 |page=22 |issue=45140 |column=G }}</ref> She was refloated on 2 March 1929.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty Reports |date=4 March 1929 |page=23 |issue=45142 |column=G }}</ref>

By 1939, ''Liberty Glo'' was one of four ships sailing for the [[American Foreign Steamship Corporation]] of New York.<ref>{{cite book | last = Jordan | first = Roger W. | title = The World's Merchant Fleets, 1939: The Particulars And Wartime Fates of 6,000 Ships | publisher = Chatham | location = London | year = 1999 | page = 383 | isbn = 1-86176-023-X }}</ref> During [[World War II]], the ship sailed in several Atlantic convoys to the Mediterranean.<ref>[http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Liberty+Glo%22+site:convoyweb.org.uk&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en-gb&num=50&filter=0 Convoyweb.org.uk]</ref> The ship was renamed ''North Glow'' in 1947, but only sailed for three more years. In November 1950, the ship was [[ship breaking|broken up]] in [[Baltimore]].<ref name=Miramar>{{csr|register=MSI| id = 2218597 | shipname= Liberty Glo | accessdate = July 17, 2009 }}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}} *http://www.usmm.org/ww1merchant.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725224849/http://www.usmm.org/ww1merchant.html |date=July 25, 2020 }}

==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20150419131808/http://smmlonline.com/articles/hogislanders/hogislanders.html Full history of Hog Islanders]

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