September
Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 September | United States | Kaiser Shipyards | Vancouver, WA | Didrickson Bay | Casablanca class escort carrier | Converted S4 merchant hull |
2 September | United Kingdom | Clelands (Successors) Ltd | Willington Quay-on-Tyne | Empire Winnie | Tug | For Ministry of War Transport |
9 September | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma, WA | St. Simon | Bogue class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter for Lend-Lease as HMS Arbiter |
11 September | United States | Kaiser Shipyards | Vancouver, WA | Wake Island | Casablanca class escort carrier | Converted S4 merchant hull |
11 September | United Kingdom | Cochrane & Sons Ltd | Selby | Empire Humphrey | Tug | For Ministry of War Transport |
15 September | United Kingdom | J Scott & Sons Ltd | Bowling | Empire Rider | Coaster | For Ministry of War Transport |
15 September | United Kingdom | Sir J Laing & Sons Ltd | Sunderland | Empire Beresford | Tanker | For Ministry of War Transport |
18 September | United Kingdom | I Pimblott & Sons Ltd | Northwich | Empire Cricketer | Coaster | For Ministry of War Transport |
25 September | United States | Basalt Rock Company | Napa, California | USS Current (ARS-22) | Diver class rescue and salvage ship | |
26 September | United States | New York Shipbuilding Corporation | Camden, NJ | San Jacinto | Independence class light aircraft carrier | Converted cruiser hull |
27 September | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma, WA | Vermillion | Bogue class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter for Lend-Lease as HMS Smiter |
27 September | United States | Kaiser Shipyards | Vancouver, WA | White Plains | Casablanca class escort carrier | Converted S4 merchant hull |
30 September | United Kingdom | Furness Shipbuilding Co Ltd | Haverton Hill-on-Tees | Empire Bounty | Tanker | For Ministry of War Transport |
30 September | United Kingdom | Hind | Black Swan class sloop |
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Famous quotes containing the word september:
“April is in my mistress face,
And July in her eyes hath place,
Within her bosom is September,
But in her heart a cold December.”
—Unknown. Subject #4: July Subject #5: September Subject #6: December. All Seasons in One. . .
Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932)
“Thus was my first years life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th, 1847.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)