SS James Bennett Moore was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II.

She was named after James Bennett Moore, who was lost at sea while he was the 2nd assistant engineer on the freighter SS Massmar, after the convoy (QP 13) she was travelling in strayed into an Allied minefield (SN72) 5 July 1942, off Greenland.

James Bennett Moore was laid down on 15 December 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2397, by J.A.

Jones Construction, Brunswick, Georgia; she was sponsored by Mary Peavey, daughter of Senator John Thomas of Idaho, and launched on 19 January 1945.

On 6 May 1948, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, in the Hudson River Group.