SS Willard Hall
SS Willard Hall was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Willard Hall, a Delaware attorney and politician from Wilmington in New Castle County. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, who served in the Delaware Senate, as a United States representative from Delaware and as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
Construction
Willard Hall was laid down on 29 November 1942, under a Maritime Commission contract, MCE hull 930, by the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland; she was launched on 28 December 1942.History
She was allocated to the Stockard Steamship Corp., on 11 January 1943.On 14 June 1946, she was laid up in the Hudson River Reserve Fleet, in Hoboken, New Jersey. On 5 December 1946, she was towed to Norfolk, Virginia, for an estimated $44,088 in repairs. On 6 January 1947, there was a pending sale to Marine Tranport Lines, Inc., but on 9 January 1947, she was reallocated to Stockard SS Co. On 2 October 1947, she was laid up in the Wilmington Reserve Fleet in Wilmington, North Carolina. On 2 February 1966, she was sold to Union Minerals & Alloys Corp., for $46,400, to be scrapped.