U. S. Maritime Commission Shipbuilding Contracts, 1938-1945

United States Standard Merchant Ships in World War II

Maritime Commission Contracts, 1937-1945

The C3-S-A2 freighter Sea Sturgeon (MC hull 1547) returning to San Francisco after World War II with homeward-bound servicemen. She was built by the Western Pipe and Steel Co. of San Francisco under Contract MCc 13172 of 31 December 1942 and ordered completed as a troop transport under the MC's Military Program on 15 February 1944. (NH 98701)

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This portion of the Shipscribe web site contains five tables containing data on all the contracts let for construction of standard-design merchant ship during World War II by the United States Maritime Commission. Five of the tables contain the same data, the difference being in the way they are sorted. The sixth and last table lists the Maritime Commission ship designs with very brief specifications and notes.

List of MC Contracts Sorted by MC Hull Number

List of MC Contracts Sorted by Shipbuilders

List of MC Contracts Sorted by Contract Number

List of MC Contracts Sorted by Program and Action Date

List of MC Contracts Sorted by Design

List of MC Designs with Descriptions

Introduction and Key to Maritime Commission Contract Tables

These contracts with the construction dates of individual ships were listed in U.S. Maritime Commission, Construction Division, "Permanent Report of Completed Ship Construction Contracts, Report B1." The postwar program was documented through 1976 in U.S. Maritime Administration, "Shipbuilding Progress Report, Permanent Report of Completed Ship Construction Contracts" dated 1 January 1977. Click here for downloadable copies of these reports.

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