SS George Calvert (1942)

SS George Calvert was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II.

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.

George Calvert was laid down on 19 November 1941, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MCE hull 29, by the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland; she was sponsored by Mrs. William C. Sealey, the daughter of L.R.

[4] George Calvert had set out from Baltimore, in May 1942, on her maiden voyage, for Bandar Shahpur, with 9,116 LT (9,262 t) of general cargo.

U-753 launched at least one more torpedo at 20:03, which struck George Calvert amidship, braking the ship in half and causing her to sink immediately.