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The Liberty class ship Meyer London. She was hit by U-407 on 16 Apr 1944.

Information on the Liberty class:

The basic hull model for the vessels was based on the SS Dorington Court, a British steamer built in the 30's with raked stem, cruiser stern, single screw and balanced rudder. The main propulsion unit was a three cylinder, triple expansion, reciprocating steam engine whose design dated back to 1896.

Because Britain had no domestic oil at the time, it was to be powered by coal-fired scotch or Fire-tube boilers. It was 441 feet long, with a beam of 57 feet and displaced about 7,500 tons. It could carry 9,150 tons of cargo in its five holds. The cruising range would be 8,000 miles at 11 knots.

The United States Maritime Commission made a number of alterations to the Ocean class design. Some were made to conform to American manufacturing and shipbuilding standards, others to accommodate the scarcity of certain materials, and then some to meet the need to build as rapidly and as cheaply as possible. This resulted in the designation EC2-S-C1, originally referred to as 'emergency ships'.

One of the more common nicknames was Ugly Duckling inspired by their utilitarian appearance, but in 1941, after President Franklin D Roosevelt told the country that these ships would bring liberty to Europe, they became known as Liberty Ship.

Below are the merchant vessels of the Liberty class:
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Loss date		Name of ship	Tons	Nat.	U-boat	Commander
20 May 1942		George Calvert	7,191		U-753	Alfred Manhardt von Mannstein
28 Jun 1942		Sam Houston	7,176		U-203	Rolf Mützelburg
29 Jun 1942		Thomas McKean	7,191		U-505	Axel-Olaf Loewe
3 Jul 1942		Alexander Macomb	7,191		U-215	Fritz Hoeckner
4 Jul 1942		William Hooper	7,177		U-334	Hilmar Siemon
4 Jul 1942		Christopher Newport	7,191		U-457	Karl Brandenburg
5 Jul 1942		Daniel Morgan	7,177		U-88	Heino Bohmann
6 Jul 1942		John Witherspoon	7,191		U-255	Reinhart Reche
21 Jul 1942		William Cullen Bryant (d.)	7,176		U-84	Horst Uphoff
18 Aug 1942		John Hancock	7,176		U-553	Karl Thurmann
30 Aug 1942		Star of Oregon	7,176		U-162	Jürgen Wattenberg
13 Sep 1942		Oliver Ellsworth	7,191		U-408	Reinhard von Hymmen
24 Sep 1942		John Winthrop	7,176		U-619	Kurt Makowski
8 Oct 1942		John Carter Rose	7,191		U-201	Günther Rosenberg
26 Oct 1942		Anne Hutchinson (t.)	7,176		U-504	Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske
1 Nov 1942		George Thatcher	7,176		U-126	Ernst Bauer
4 Nov 1942		William Clark	7,176		U-354	Karl-Heinz Herbschleb
7 Nov 1942		Nathaniel Hawthorne	7,176		U-508	Georg Staats
20 Nov 1942		Pierce Butler	7,191		U-177	Robert Gysae
27 Nov 1942		Jeremiah Wadsworth	7,176		U-178	Hans Ibbeken
1 Jan 1943		Arthur Middleton	7,176		U-73	Horst Deckert
23 Jan 1943		Benjamin Smith	7,177		U-175	Heinrich Bruns
27 Jan 1943		Julia Ward Howe	7,176		U-442	Hans-Joachim Hesse
27 Jan 1943		Charles C. Pinckney	7,177		U-514	Hans-Jürgen Auffermann
2 Feb 1943		Jeremiah Van Rensselaer	7,177		U-456	Max-Martin Teichert
8 Feb 1943		Roger B. Taney	7,191		U-160	Georg Lassen
24 Feb 1943		Nathanael Greene (d.)	7,176		U-565	Wilhelm Franken
24 Feb 1943		Jonathan Sturges	7,176		U-707	Günter Gretschel
28 Feb 1943		Daniel Carroll (d.)	7,176		U-371	Waldemar Mehl
28 Feb 1943		Wade Hampton	7,176		U-405	Rolf-Heinrich Hopman
1 Mar 1943		Fitz-John Porter	7,176		U-518	Friedrich-Wilhelm Wissmann
2 Mar 1943		Meriwether Lewis	7,176		U-634	Eberhard Dahlhaus
3 Mar 1943		Harvey W. Scott	7,176		U-160	Georg Lassen
8 Mar 1943		James B. Stephens	7,176		U-160	Georg Lassen
9 Mar 1943		George G. Meade (d.)	7,176		U-510	Karl Neitzel
9 Mar 1943		Tabitha Brown (d.)	7,176		U-510	Karl Neitzel
9 Mar 1943		Mark Hanna (d.)	7,176		U-510	Karl Neitzel
9 Mar 1943		James K. Polk (t.)	7,177		U-510	Karl Neitzel
9 Mar 1943		Joseph Rodman Drake (d.)	7,181		U-510	Karl Neitzel
9 Mar 1943		James Smith (d.)	7,181		U-510	Karl Neitzel
9 Mar 1943		Thomas Ruffin (t.)	7,191		U-510	Karl Neitzel
10 Mar 1943		Richard D. Spaight	7,177		U-182	Asmus Nicolai Clausen
10 Mar 1943		James Sprunt	7,177		U-185	August Maus
10 Mar 1943		Richard Bland (t.)	7,191		U-255	Reinhart Reche
10 Mar 1943		Lawton B. Evans (d.)	7,197		U-221	Hans-Hartwig Trojer
11 Mar 1943		William C. Gorgas	7,197		U-757	Friedrich Deetz
12 Mar 1943		Thomas Hooker	7,176		U-653	Gerhard Feiler
16 Mar 1943		Benjamin Harrison	7,191		U-172	Carl Emmermann
17 Mar 1943		James Oglethorpe	7,176		U-758	Helmut Manseck
17 Mar 1943		William Eustis	7,196		U-435	Siegfried Strelow
17 Mar 1943		Molly Pitcher (d.)	7,200		U-167	Kurt Sturm
18 Mar 1943		Walter Q. Gresham	7,191		U-221	Hans-Hartwig Trojer
18 Mar 1943		Molly Pitcher	7,200		U-521	Klaus Heinrich Bargsten
29 Mar 1943		William Pierce Frye	7,176		U-610	Walter Freiherr von Freyberg-Eisenberg-Allmendingen
6 Apr 1943		John Sevier	7,176		U-185	August Maus
11 Apr 1943		Matt W. Ransom (d.)	7,177		U-117	Hans-Werner Neumann
11 Apr 1943		Edward B. Dudley	7,177		U-615	Ralph Kapitzky
11 Apr 1943		James W. Denver	7,200		U-195	Heinz Buchholz
19 Apr 1943		Robert Gray	7,176		U-108	Ralf-Reimar Wolfram
7 May 1943		Samuel Jordan Kirkwood	7,191		U-195	Heinz Buchholz
28 May 1943		Cardinal Gibbons (d.)	7,191		U-154	Oskar-Heinz Kusch
30 May 1943		Flora MacDonald (t.)	7,177		U-126	Siegfried Kietz
6 Jun 1943		William King	7,176		U-198	Werner Hartmann
27 Jun 1943		Sebastian Cermeno	7,194		U-511	Fritz Schneewind
3 Jul 1943		Elihu B. Washburne	7,176		U-513	Friedrich Guggenberger
7 Jul 1943		James Robertson	7,176		U-185	August Maus
7 Jul 1943		Thomas Sinnickson	7,176		U-185	August Maus
9 Jul 1943		Samuel Heintzelman	7,176		U-511	Fritz Schneewind
10 Jul 1943		Alice F. Palmer	7,176		U-177	Robert Gysae
10 Jul 1943		Matthew Maury (d.)	7,176		U-371	Waldemar Mehl
14 Jul 1943		Robert Bacon	7,197		U-178	Wilhelm Dommes
16 Jul 1943		Richard Caswell	7,177		U-513	Friedrich Guggenberger
28 Jul 1943		John A. Poor (d.)	7,176		U-119	Horst-Tessen von Kameke
30 Jul 1943		William Ellery (d.)	7,181		U-197	Robert Bartels
23 Aug 1943		Pierre Soulé (d.)	7,191		U-380	Josef Röther
26 Aug 1943		Richard Henderson	7,194		U-410	Horst-Arno Fenski
26 Aug 1943		John Bell	7,242		U-410	Horst-Arno Fenski
28 Aug 1943		Albert Gallatin (d.)	7,176		U-107	Volker Simmermacher
20 Sep 1943		Theodore Dwight Weld	7,176		U-238	Horst Hepp
20 Sep 1943		Frederick Douglass (d.)	7,176		U-238	Horst Hepp
20 Sep 1943		Frederick Douglass	7,176		U-645	Otto Ferro
21 Sep 1943		Cornelia P. Spencer	7,176		U-188	Siegfried Lüdden
21 Sep 1943		William W. Gerhard	7,176		U-593	Gerd Kelbling
23 Sep 1943		James Gordon Bennett (d.)	7,176		U-952	Oskar Curio
26 Sep 1943		Christian Michelsen	7,176		U-410	Horst-Arno Fenski
15 Oct 1943		James Russell Lowell (t.)	7,176		U-371	Waldemar Mehl
24 Nov 1943		Melville E. Stone	7,176		U-516	Hans-Rutger Tillessen
16 Dec 1943		John S. Copley (d.)	7,176		U-73	Horst Deckert
27 Dec 1943		José Navarro	7,244		U-178	Wilhelm Spahr
16 Jan 1944		Sumner I. Kimball	7,176		U-960	Günther Heinrich
25 Jan 1944		Penelope Barker	7,177		U-278	Joachim Franze
26 Jan 1944		Walter Camp	7,176		U-532	Ottoheinrich Junker
26 Jan 1944		Andrew G. Curtin	7,200		U-716	Hans Dunkelberg
26 Jan 1944		Samouri	7,219		U-188	Siegfried Lüdden
3 Feb 1944		Chung Cheng	7,176		U-188	Siegfried Lüdden
22 Feb 1944		George Cleeve (t.)	7,176		U-969	Max Dobbert
22 Feb 1944		Peter Skene Ogden (t.)	7,176		U-969	Max Dobbert
10 Mar 1944		William B. Woods	7,176		U-952	Oskar Curio
19 Mar 1944		John A. Poor	7,176		U-510	Alfred Eick
16 Apr 1944		Thomas G. Masaryk (t.)	7,176		U-407	Hubertus Korndörfer
16 Apr 1944		Meyer London	7,210		U-407	Hubertus Korndörfer
30 Apr 1944		William S. Thayer	7,176		U-307	Friedrich-Georg Herrle
29 Jun 1944		H.G. Blasdel (t.)	7,176		U-984	Heinz Sieder
29 Jun 1944		James A. Farrell (t.)	7,176		U-984	Heinz Sieder
29 Jun 1944		John A. Treutlen (t.)	7,198		U-984	Heinz Sieder
29 Jun 1944		Edward M. House (d.)	7,240		U-984	Heinz Sieder
24 Jul 1944		William Gaston	7,177		U-861	Jürgen Oesten
24 Jul 1944		Samneva (t.)	7,219		U-309	Hans-Gert Mahrholz
8 Aug 1944		Ezra Weston	7,176		U-667	Karl-Heinz Lange
23 Aug 1944		Louis Kossuth (d.)	7,176		U-989	Hardo Rodler von Roithberg
28 Aug 1944		John Barry	7,176		U-859	Johann Jebsen
12 Sep 1944		George Ade (d.)	7,176		U-518	Hans-Werner Offermann
29 Sep 1944		Edward H. Crockett	7,176		U-310	Wolfgang Ley
29 Sep 1944		Samsuva	7,219		U-310	Wolfgang Ley
23 Nov 1944		William D. Burnham (t.)	7,176		U-978	Günther Pulst
10 Dec 1944		Dan Beard	7,176		U-1202	Rolf Thomsen
21 Dec 1944		Samtucky (d.)	7,219		U-806	Klaus Hornbostel
24 Dec 1944		Robert J. Walker	7,180		U-862	Heinrich Timm
29 Dec 1944		Black Hawk (t.)	7,191		U-322	Gerhard Wysk
29 Dec 1944		Arthur Sewall (t.)	7,176		U-322	Gerhard Wysk
30 Dec 1944		Tbilisi (t.)	7,176		U-956	Hans-Dieter Mohs
3 Jan 1945		Henry Miller (t.)	7,207		U-870	Ernst Hechler
9 Jan 1945		Jonas Lie	7,198		U-1055	Rudolf Meyer
14 Jan 1945		Martin Van Buren (t.)	7,176		U-1232	Kurt Dobratz
21 Jan 1945		George Hawley (t.)	7,176		U-1199	Rolf Nollmann
27 Jan 1945		Ruben Dario (d.)	7,198		U-825	Gerhard Stoelker
5 Feb 1945		Henry B. Plant	7,240		U-245	Friedrich Schumann-Hindenberg
6 Feb 1945		Peter Silvester	7,176		U-862	Heinrich Timm
14 Feb 1945		Horace Gray (t.)	7,200		U-968	Otto Westphalen
17 Feb 1945		Thomas Scott	7,176		U-968	Otto Westphalen
17 Feb 1945		Michael J. Stone (d.)	7,176		U-300	Fritz Hein
20 Mar 1945		Horace Bushnell (t.)	7,176		U-995	Hans-Georg Hess
20 Mar 1945		Thomas Donaldson	7,210		U-968	Otto Westphalen
21 Mar 1945		James Eagan Layne (t.)	7,176		U-399	Heinz Buhse
21 Mar 1945		John R. Park	7,194		U-1195	Ernst Cordes
7 Apr 1945		James W. Nesmith (t.)	7,176		U-1024	Hans-Joachim Gutteck
12 Apr 1945		Will Rogers (d.)	7,200		U-1024	Hans-Joachim Gutteck
18 Apr 1945		Cyrus H. McCormick	7,181		U-1107	Fritz Parduhn

Legend:
(t.) means the ship was declared a total loss.
(d.) means the ship was damaged in the action.

138 instances of Liberty class ships hit by U-boats.

If you miss a certain ship from this listing please let us know, we probably just mislabeled her class.