Dick Lykes

8,335 gross tons, built by North Carolina Shipbuilding Corp., Wilmington, N.C. as a Standard ship type C2-S-AJ1 built for United States Maritime Commission and launched on the 20th of August 1945. The C2 types were designed by the United States Maritime Commission in 1937-38 They were all-purpose cargo ships with 5 holds. 173 were built between 1940 and 1945. The first C2?s were 459 feet long, 63 feet broad, 40 feet depth, 25 foot draft. Speed 15.5 knots. These were the cargo ships built originally to support lend-lease by which we supplied the british and russians with the materiel of war to fight the germans and later supplied our own troops as they fought in Europe and the Pacific and on through the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.

5th of March of 1970 Broken up at Kaohsiung