SS Joseph Stanton
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| United States | |
| Name | Joseph Stanton |
| Namesake | Joseph Stanton |
| Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
| Operator | Agwilines Inc. |
| Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MCE hull 304 |
| Awarded | 1 May 1941 |
| Builder | Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland |
| Cost | $1,074,509 |
| Yard number | 2054 |
| Way number | 14 |
| Laid down | 2 May 1942 |
| Launched | 4 July 1942 |
| Sponsored by | Miss Ruth Reece |
| Completed | 18 July 1942 |
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| Beam | 57 feet (17 m) |
| Draft | 27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m) |
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| Speed | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
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SS Joseph Stanton was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Joseph Stanton, an American military officer during the American Revolutionary War, raising to the rank of major general, in the Continental Army, in command of the Rhode Island Militia. He was a delegate to the Rhode Island Constitutional Convention in 1790, which ratified the United States Constitution and enabled Rhode Island, to be the last of the 13 colonies to join the Union. He was elected by the General Assembly to serve as one of the first two US Senators from Rhode Island, and served from 12 June 1790 to 3 March 1793, as a member of the Anti-Administration Party. He was later elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he served from 4 March 1801 to 3 March 1807, as a member of the Jeffersonian Democrat-Republican Party.