SS George E. Badger
{{short description|World War II Liberty ship of the United States}}
{{other ships|USS George E. Badger (DD-196)}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United States |Ship flag={{USN flag|1972}} |Ship name= George E. Badger |Ship namesake=George Edmund Badger |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina{{cite web |url=http://shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/4emergency/wwtwo/northcarolina.htm |title=North Carolina Shipbuilding |publisher=shipbuildinghistory.com |accessdate=2009-11-28 }} |Ship laid down=27 December 1942 |Ship launched=26 January 1943 |Ship sponsor= |Ship christened= |Ship completed= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship homeport= |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honors= |Ship fate=Scrapped, 1972 |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship type= Liberty ship |Ship tonnage={{DWT|7,000|long|disp=long}} |Ship displacement= |Ship length={{convert|441|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|56|ft|10.75|in|m|abbr=on}} |Ship draft={{convert|27|ft|9.25|in|m|abbr=on}} |Ship depth= |Ship hold depth= |Ship propulsion=*2 × oil-fired boilers
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SS George E. Badger (Hull Number 884) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after George Edmund Badger, a North Carolina Senator from 1846 to 1855 and Secretary of the Navy in 1841.
The ship was laid down on 27 December 1942, then launched on 26 January 1943. George E. Badger was operated by Grace Line under charter with the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration. George E. Badger took part in "Operation Overlord", the invasion of Normandy in June 1944.{{cite web |url=http://www.usmm.org/normandyships.html |title=American Merchant Marine Ships at Normandy in June 1944 |publisher=www.usmm.org |accessdate=2009-11-28 }} The ship survived the war only to suffer the same fate as nearly all other Liberty ships that survived did; she was scrapped in 1972.
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