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|Ship country=United States
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|Ship name= ''David E. Hughes''
|Ship namesake=[[David E. Hughes]]
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|Ship builder=[[California Shipbuilding Corporation]], [[Los Angeles, California]]
|Ship yard number=199
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|Ship laid down=10 May 1943
|Ship launched= 31 May 1943
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|Ship tonnage={{DWT|7,000|long|disp=long}}
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|Ship capacity=9,140 tons cargo
|Ship complement=41
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'''SS ''David E. Hughes''''' ([[Maritime Commission|MC]] contract 1666) was a [[Liberty ship]] built in the United States during World War II. She was named after [[David E. Hughes]], an American musician, professor, and inventor.

The ship was laid down at the [[California Shipbuilding Corporation]] in [[Los Angeles, California]], on 10 May 1943, then launched on 31 May 1943.
She was operated durning [[World War II]] by the [[States Marine Corporation]]. While in the Western Pacific she delivered supplies to the Australians, ferried Australian troops, and delivered supplies to the Russian Army in Iran. On 4 April 1944 she transported the Australian 4th Battalion along with other 5th Division troops from Langemak Bay, Finschafen, Papua, New Guinea, then sailed to Saidor, a 21-hour voyage.  She returned from Hollandia, Dutch West Indies to San Francisco on 5 January 1945 with her crew of nine men and US Navy Armed Guard contingent of 24 men.  In 1948 she did post war work operated by [[W. R. Chamberlin & Company]], then [[Boland and Cornelius Company]] and then [[United States Navigation Company]]. In 1949 she was placed in the US [[Reserve fleet]]. In 1950 she was remove from the Reserve fleet for support of the [[Korean War]] and operated by [[T. J. Stevenson & Company, Inc.]] and then [[Shepard Steamship Company]].  From 1957 to 1958 and in 1968 she was used to store surplus grain with the Blidberg Rothchild Company and then [[Moore McCormack Lines]].<ref>[https://vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/1200 dot.gov, David E. Hughes]</ref>

She was scuttled with obsolete ammunition in 1970.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/4emergency/wwtwo/kcalifornia.htm |title=California Shipbuilding Corporation, Los Angeles CA |publisher=www.shipbuildinghistory.com |access-date=2009-12-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820073449/http://www.shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/4emergency/wwtwo/kcalifornia.htm |archive-date=2008-08-20 }}</ref>

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