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 "Ball's Bluff", close starboard side view at anchor, June 9th, 1943.
( Photo US Coast Guard )
 "Ball's Bluff", close starboard side view at anchor, May 30th, 1944.
( Photo US Coast Guard )
 "Ball's Bluff", close port side view at anchor, June 4th, 1944.
( Photo US Coast Guard )
 
"Ball's Bluff", location and date unknown.
( Photo Copyright NARA )
 
"Ball's Bluff", location and date unknown.
( Photo Copyright NARA )
 
"Ambronia', ex. "Ball's Bluff" at Cape Town, South Africa, date unknown.
( Photo copyright A. Duncan )
 "Ambronia', ex. "Ball's Bluff", off Cape Town, South Africa, date unknown.
( Photo copyright A. Duncan )
 "Rina Corrado", ex. "Ambronia", ex. "Ball's Bluff" in the port of Taranto (Italy), dating from 1960, which shows a laid-up T-2 tanker
from Corrado in the foreground, and in the rear another T-2 tanker, apparently a Fassio ship. I have reason to believe that the
Corrado ship was the "Rina Corrado" (1943, ex "Ball's Bluff"), as she was laid up already in 1958.
( Photo Copyright Reserved )

BALL'S BLUFF, T2-SE-A1
History :
Built by Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Chester, Pennsylvania.
Yardnumber 288. UMSC No. 355. Official nr. 243848.
Keel laid 25-03-1943. Launched 12-07-1943. Completed 24-07-1943. Gr. 10195 t., Net. 6246 t., Dw. 16613 t. L.o.a. 159,57 m., Br. 20,78 m., Dr. 9,31 m. Engine: 2 steam turbines, manufactured by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh. 7240 B.h.p.,5401 kW. Speed 15 knots. 26 Tanks.
History:
BALL’S BLUFF-1943 completed for United States War Shipping Administration, Philadelphia, USA.
AMBRONIA-1948 for Ambronia Compania di Navigazione, Genoa, Italy.
RINA CORRADO-1956 for Corrado Soc. Di Navigazione, Genoa, Italy.
RINA CORRADO-1963a for Sicilarma Soc di Nav pA , Palermo, Italy.
RINA CORRADO-1963b for Corrado Soc. Di Navigazione, Genoa, Italy.
Additional Reports:
Reported Rina Corrado sold to shipbreakers in Italy. Arrived Trieste 7 Nov. 1965 to be broken up. Work began Jun. 1966. Work completed Sep. 1966.