SS Howard A. Kelly

SS Howard A. Kelly was an American Liberty ship built in 1943 for service in World War II. Her namesake was Howard Atwood Kelly, an influential American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings.

Design
Like other Liberty ships, she was 441 ft long and 56 ft wide, carried 9000 tons of cargo and had a top speed of 11 kn. Most Liberty ships were named after prominent deceased Americans.

Construction and career
This particular ship was built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in Baltimore. She was launched on 18 March 1943 and commissioned later that year. She was operated as a Merchant navy ship for the United States Shipping Board by A. L. Burbank & Company, Ltd.

She was scrapped in 1969.