SS George Calvert (1942)
- Note: The USAS American Mariner, originally entered service as SS George Calvert (build number 2007/MC Hull 20) and launched in 1941 should not be confused with SS George Calvert (build number 2016/MC Hull 29) which was launched in 1942.
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| United States | |
| Name | George Calvert |
| Namesake | George Calvert |
| Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
| Operator | A.H. Bull & Co., Inc. |
| Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MCE hull 29 |
| Awarded | 14 March 1941 |
| Builder | Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland |
| Cost | $1,172,827 |
| Yard number | 2016 |
| Way number | 3 |
| Laid down | 19 November 1941 |
| Launched | 14 March 1942 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. William C. Sealey |
| Completed | 30 April 1942 |
| Fate | Torpedoed and sunk by U-753, 20 May 1942 |
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| Beam | 57 feet (17 m) |
| Draft | 27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m) |
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| Speed | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
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SS George Calvert was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after George Calvert, an English politician and colonizer. Calvert took an interest in the British colonization of the Americas, becoming the proprietor of the Province of Avalon, the first sustained English settlement on the southeastern peninsula on the island of Newfoundland. He later sought a new royal charter to settle the region, which would become the state of Maryland.