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S/S Black Warrior

Posted by Mike Foucher on April 20, 2010, 11:16 am

I am trying to find any information regarding the S/S Black Warrior from WWII. I have done every possible search engine on the internet and have come up nearly nothing. The only things I have found was a partial crew listing but no other info. I know this ship must have existed as I have an envelope addressed to my late father, SM2c Henry Foucher at the Naval Armed Guard Center New Orleans c/o S/S Black Warrior. Can anybody help?

Re: S/S Black Warrior

Posted by J on January 23, 2016, 4:01 pm, in reply to "S/S Black Warrior"

I found a reference to the Black Warrior in a letter my dad wrote my mom April 8th 1944. Daddy wrote that he "saw them launch a ship today at 11:15 a.m. the name of the ship was Black Warrior." This was in Wilmington, nc. Daddy said he had strung some lights on the ship.

Re: S/S Black Warrior

Posted by Rick Pitz on May 1, 2010, 11:51 pm, in reply to "S/S Black Warrior"

Mike:

You can get some details on the voyages of the Black Warrior by going to the following:

http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/

Click on "Arnold Hague Port Database"
Click "Ship Search" on the left side of the screen.
Enter "black warrior" in the search box in the middle of the window, and click "find vessel".

This will give you the voyages from June 1944 through December 1945.

Hope this helps!

Rick

Re: S/S Black Warrior

Posted by Mike on May 2, 2010, 1:57 pm, in reply to "Re: S/S Black Warrior"

Rick,

Thanks for the link! One more piece of the puzzle found. I really appreciate the help.

Mike

Re: S/S Black Warrior

Posted by Ron Carlson on April 20, 2010, 12:50 pm, in reply to "S/S Black Warrior"

Mike,

BLACK WARRIOR was a type C2 cargo ship built by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina, completed in May 1944. The record is very scanty except to say she survived the war, was sold to a private shipping company in 1947, and was scrapped in 1971. See http://www.shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/4emergency/wwtwo/northcarolina.htm and scroll to hull number 119.

BLACK WARRIOR was specifically a version known as the C2-S-AJ1, a "breakbulk" or general cargo ship. While I could not find an online photograph, see this page for a typical profile sketch of a ship of this type: http://drawings.usmaritimecommission.de/drawings_c2.htm. If you do a page search for "black warrior" you will find the ship listed by name under the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, with the drawing beneath the description.

A photograph of a sister ship, MOUNT HOOD, is found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Mount_Hood_%28AE-11%29.jpg.

The ship was named after the Black Warrior River in Alabama.

Ron Carlson, Webmaster

Re: S/S Black Warrior

Posted by Brian on June 27, 2016, 12:48 pm, in reply to "Re: S/S Black Warrior"

I have a photo of the Southland that was the Black Warrior

Re: S/S Black Warrior

Posted by Mike Foucher on April 20, 2010, 1:15 pm, in reply to "Re: S/S Black Warrior"

Thanks Mr. Carlson! There is definitely very little info on this ship. I know it was just one of several ships my Dad served on during WWII but it was the one I couldn't find any info on whatsoever. Well, this is just one piece of the puzzle of trying to track my Dads service. If anyone on here happens to recognize his name I would welcome hearing from you. He was a Signalman 2nd Class, enlisted in '42 and attended school at Groton, served in the American Campaign, Asia-Pacific campaign and Middle East, Africa, European Campaign.

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