SS Henry L. Benning was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Henry L. Benning, a senior officer of the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War. Benning also was a lawyer, legislator, and associate judge on the Georgia Supreme Court.
Construction Henry L. Benning was laid down on 12 January 1943, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MCE hull 946, by the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland; she was sponsored by Miss Ann A. Thoron, granddaughter of Henry Benning, and launched on 22 February 1943.
History She was allocated to the Cosmopolitan Shipping Co., Inc., on 9 March 1943.
On 5 February 1946, she was laid up in the James River Reserve Fleet, in Lee Hall, Virginia, with $29,854, worth of damages. She was delivered to the Operations Department, on 12 February 1947. On 23 February 1948, she was laid up in the Wilmington Reserve Fleet, in Wilmington, North Carolina. On 30 January 1951, she was sold to A. H. Bull Steamship Co.. She was renamed Dorothy, and later renamed Emma, 27 October 1961. On 11 October 1962, she was sold and reflagged in India, and renamed Nanak Jayanti, she was scrapped in December 1967.
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