SS Abraham Clark (Hull Number 75) was a Liberty ship

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 built at in the United States

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 during World War II

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. She was named after Abraham Clark

Abraham Clark

Abraham Clark was an American politician and Revolutionary War figure. He was delegate for New Jersey to the Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence and later served in the United States House of Representatives in both the Second and Third United States Congress, from...

, a signer of the Declaration of Independence

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 from New Jersey

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The ship was laid down by the California Shipbuilding Corporation

California Shipbuilding Corporation

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, Terminal Island

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, Los Angeles

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 on 3 December 1941, then launched on 2 April 1942. She took part in operations supporting the invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

The ship survived the war and was sold into private ownership in 1947. However, in 1959, the ship was wrecked off Grays Harbor in Washington and subsequently scrapped.