SS Grover C. Hutcherson

SS Grover C. Hutcherson was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II.

She was named after Grover C. Hutcherson, a Merchant seaman killed on the Liberty ship SS Timothy Pickering when she was struck by an Italian Junkers Ju 87 Stuka while anchored off August Sicily, 13 July 1943.

Grover C. Hutcherson was laid down on 21 November 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2512, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored by Mrs. A.J.

Gollnick, the wife of the assistant general superintendent in charge of St. John's River SB, and was launched on 22 December 1944.

On 28 April 1948, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Wilmington, North Carolina.