SS Nathan Clifford was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Nathan Clifford, was an American statesman, diplomat and jurist. He represented Maine, in the US House of Representatives from 1839 to 1843, then served as the US Attorney General from 1846 to 1848, and as the US Ambassador to Mexico from 1848 to 1849. In the latter office, he signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In 1858, he was appointed to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, where he served until his death in 1881.
Construction Nathan Clifford was laid down on 1 January 1943, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MCE hull 944, by the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland; she was launched on 18 February 1943.
History She was allocated to the American Foreign Steamship Corp., on 3 March 1943.
On 26 May 1947, she was sold to American Foreign Steamship Corp., and renamed American Oriole. In 1957, she was sold and reflagged in Liberia, she was renamed Atlantic Oriole. She was renamed Kyma, in 1961, and Tassia, in 1965. On 5 September 1965, while en route from Amsterdam to Houston, she sprang a leak and sank.
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