SS John Owen
{{short description|United States WWII Liberty Ship}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United States |Ship flag= {{USN flag|1941}} |Ship name= John Owen |Ship namesake=John Owen |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina |Ship yard number= |Ship way number= |Ship laid down=15 April 1943 |Ship launched=10 May 1943 |Ship delivered=16 May 1943 |Ship commissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship struck= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship homeport= |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honors= |Ship fate= Scrapped 1964 |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|11|in|m|abbr=on}} |Ship draft= {{convert|27|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}} |Ship depth= |Ship hold depth= |Ship propulsion=*Two oil-fired boilers
|Ship speed= {{convert|11|kn|lk=in}} |Ship range= |Ship capacity=9,140 tons cargo |Ship complement=41 |Ship armament=*1 × Stern-mounted 4-inch/50-caliber gun deck gun
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SS John Owen (MC contract 1970) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after John Owen, Governor of North Carolina from 1828 to 1830.
The ship was laid down by North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in their Cape Fear River yard on April 15, 1943, and launched on May 10, 1943.{{cite web |url=http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/emergencylarge/northcarolina.htm |title=North Carolina Shipbuilding |publisher=shipbuildinghistory.com |accessdate=2019-11-06}} Owen was chartered to the William J. Rountree Company most of World War II. First stored at the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, she was transferred to the Astoria Reserve Fleet in 1949. While there, Owen was part of the United States Department of Agriculture grain storage program, holding 7000 tons of grain{{cite book |last1=Van Horn |first1=W.H. |last2=Freund |first2=D. |date=1963 |title=Civil Defense Utilization of Ships and Boats |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/421043.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106234833/https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/421043.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 6, 2019 |access-date=February 17, 2006}} from 1954 to 1957.{{cite web |url=https://vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/2646 |title=John Owen |publisher=MARAD Vessel History Database |accessdate=2019-11-06}} It was sold for scrap in 1964.
On March 10, 1944, somewhere in the vicinity of Midway, SS John Owen's master, Robert Ogg, "drowned accidentally at sea."{{cite web |title=ROBERT R. OGG, CAPT, USMS |url=http://usnamemorialhall.org/index.php/ROBERT_R._OGG,_CAPT,_USMS |website=USNA Virtual Memorial Hall |publisher=Run To Honor, Inc. |accessdate=27 April 2020}} A certified master, A. H. Hammet, was sent to Midway to take command of the ship.
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Category:Ships built in Wilmington, North Carolina
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