SS John Miller

SS John Miller was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II.

She was named after John Miller, a Merchant seaman killed on the Liberty ship SS Samuel Heintzelman, 9 July 1943, when she was struck and sunk by a torpedo from German submarine U-511.

[4] John Miller was laid down on 7 December 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2515, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored by Mrs. Margie Knight, the sister of the namesake, and she was launched on 15 January 1945.

[1][2] She was allocated to the Isbrandstsen Steamship Co., Inc., on 15 January 1945.

On 23 August 1949, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Beaumont, Texas.