SS Fort Abitibi was a North Sands-type Fort ship of measuring long with a beam of .
Fort and Park ships were the Canadian equivalent of the American Liberty ships. All three shared a similar design by J.L. Thompson and Sons of Sunderland, England. Fort ships had a triple expansion steam engine and a single screw propeller.The National Archives, Kew UK Reference:BT 389/13/17
Fort Abitibi was built by Canadian Vickers Ltd., of Montreal. It was given Registry No.168825, and was delivered in May 1942 to the U.S. War Shipping Administration. The vessel was operated by Smith Hogg & Co., West Hartlepool, and was part of the merchant navy fleet supplying Britain during World War II.Convoy HX 193 Cruising Order Departed Halifax on June 7-1942 and arrived Liverpool on the 19th It was used by the U.S. Maritime Commission; in 1947 and was later transferred to Sir R Ropner & Co. Ltd., of West Hartlepool for the Ministry of War Transport. Fort Abitibi was broken up in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1958.Fort Ships of World War Two Angela DeRoy-Jones Last modified: February 15, 2005
It sailed to Australia on several occasions.
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