SS Will Rogers

SS Will Rogers was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II.

She was named after Will Rogers, an American stage and film actor, vaudeville performer, cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator from Oklahoma.

Will Rogers was then taken in tow and beached off of Holyhead, near SS James W. Nesmith, which had also been torpedoed by U-1024 on 7 April.

[5] On 12 April 1948, she was first laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Beaumont, Texas.

On 9 April 1952, she was laid up in National Defense Reserve Fleet, Mobile, Alabama.