SS Pearl Harbor was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Pearl Harbor, an American lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, where the surprise attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy on 7 December 1941, led the United States to declare war on the Empire of Japan.
Construction Pearl Harbor was laid down on 10 November 1942, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MCE hull 927, by the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland; she was sponsored by Mrs. Inez G. Kidd, widow of Rear Admiral Isaac Kidd, and was launched on 7 December 1942.
History She was allocated to Agwilines Inc., on 8 December 1942.
On 5 April 1948, she was laid up in the Beaumont Reserve Fleet, in Beaumont, Texas. On 29 October 1962, she was sold to the Southern Scrap Material Co., for $46,488.88, to be scrapped.
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