SS John B. Lennon
SS John B. Lennon was an American Liberty ship in World War II. The ship was built by the J.A. Jones Construction shipyard at Brunswick, Georgia; sponsored by Mrs. F.R. Bustin, and launched on 22 December 1943. The ship was named after John B. Lennon, the treasurer of the American Federation of Labor, later appointed by Woodrow Wilson to the U.S. Department of Labor's board of mediators and Commission of Conciliation, and also served on the U.S. Commission of Industrial Relations. Ship history John B. Lennon was operated by the Smith-Johnson Steamship Corporation under a charter with the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration. John B. Lennon sailed from the shipyard at Brunswick to New York City in early January 1944, and at the end of the month joined Convoy HX 227 in sailing to the west coast of Scotland. For the next two months was engaged in convoys around the northern coasts of the UK. On 27 March 1944, she sailed from Liverpool as part of Convoy JW 58 to the Soviet Union, arriving in Kola Inlet on 4 April, and returning with Convoy RA 59, which left the Soviet Union on 28 April, and arrived back at Loch