Liberty Ship SS William D. Pender

In my Civil War Blog http://sawtheelephant.blogspot.com this date, I was writing about Confederate General W. D. Pender who was mortally wounded the second day at Gettysburg. July 7th. I found out that a Liberty Ship built by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in Wilmington was named after him. Its engines, like the SS Calvin Coolidge, which I wrote about earlier this month, also came from the General Machinery Corporation of Hamilton, Ohio. The ship was scrapped in Baltimore in 1960. Just Another Liberty Ship. --Da Coot