Sooner State
1960
(Solent Model Ships SOM-24d)
- Type: C2-S-B1 general cargo
- Displacement: 6,292 tons
- Dimensions: 459 x 63 x 25 ft.
- Machinery: Two steam turbines, single screw 6,000 shp = 15 knots
- Passengers: 12
- Crew: 43
- Builder: Moore Drydock Co, Oakland, California, 1945
- Service: US Maritime Commission #1198; yard hull #285, delivered 25 Jan 1945. Laid down as Expounder but completed as Wild Hunter a type C2-S-B1 for the Maritime Commission. Renamed Oregon in 1947; sold to Grace Line 1957 and renamed Santa Victoria. Sold to States Marine Lines, New York, in 1960 and renamed Sooner State; joined later by sister Empire State. Travelled from US East Coast ports to Northern Europe and from US West Coast ports to Far East. Sold 1970 and renamed Reliance Dignity. Scrapped in Taiwan 1971.
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