SS Quirigua
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SS Quirigua (1932–41, 1946–58) USS Mizar (1941–46) SS Samala (1958–64) |
| Owner: | United Fruit Company |
| Operator: |
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| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 1932 |
| Launched: | 1932 |
| Acquired: | by bareboat charter, 2 June 1941 |
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| Decommissioned: | 1 April 1946 |
| Struck: | 17 April 1946 |
| Fate: | scrapped 1964 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Navy: Mizar-class stores ship |
| Type: | civilian: passenger & cargo liner |
| Displacement: | 6,982 t.(lt) 11,880 t.(fl) |
| Length: | 447 ft 10 in (136.50 m) |
| Beam: | 60 ft (18 m) |
| Draft: | 25 ft 2 in (7.67 m) |
| Installed power: | 11,000 shp |
| Propulsion: | 2 GE turbo-electric transmission, twin screws. Four Babcock & Wilcox header-type boilers, 350 psi 660°, three turbo-drive 500Kw 120V/240V D.C. Ship's Service Generators |
| Speed: | 17.5 kts. (max) |
| Capacity: | 2,615 long tons deadweight (DWT) |
| Troops: | more than 100 |
| Complement: | 238 |
| Armament: | one single 5"/38 caliber gun, four 3"/50 caliber guns AA and anti submarine and up to eight Oerlikon 20 mm cannon anti-aircraft guns |
SS Quirigua (1932–41, 1946–58) USS Mizar (1941–46)
USS Mizar (AF-12) was a United Fruit Company cargo and passenger liner that served as a United States Navy Mizar-class stores ship in World War II.
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation of Quincy, Massachusetts built the ship as SS Quirigua for United Fruit Company in 1932. She was one of six UFC sister ships driven by turbo-electric transmission. The United States Postal Service subsidised the building of the six ships, which served the USPS as mail boats.
United Fruit placed Quirigua on express liner services between Central America and New York. She normally carried up to 95 passengers to ports in Central America and then would return to the United States with passengers and a cargo of refrigerated bananas and miscellaneous cargo.
The US Navy bareboat chartered Quirigua through the Maritime Commission on 2 June 1941 under Public Law 101, 77th Congress and Executive Order 8771. Brewer's Drydock Co. of Staten Island, New York converted the ship for Navy service by adding one single 5"/38 caliber gun, four 3"/50 caliber guns for anti-aircraft (AA) and anti-submarine use and up to eight Oerlikon 20 mm cannon AA guns. She was renamed Mizar and commissioned into the US Navy on 14 June 1941, commanded by Cmdr E.D. Walbridge.
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