SS Cassimir
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header= |Ship country=United States |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United States|1918}} | Ship name= Cassimir | Ship namesake= | Ship owner= *{{nowrap| United States Shipping Board (1920) | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=American International Shipbuilding Corporation, Philadelphia | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number=1531{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 589}} | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=May 1920 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=1920 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship homeport= Baltimore, Maryland | Ship identification=*US Official Number 220574{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 589}}
| Ship nickname= | Ship fate=*Sunk in collision, 26 February 1942 | Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = | Ship type = Design 1022 cargo ship | Ship tonnage = *{{GRT|5030}} | Ship displacement = | Ship length = {{convert|390.0|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship beam = {{convert|54.2|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height = | Ship draught = | Ship draft = | Ship depth ={{convert|27.8|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship hold depth = | Ship decks = | Ship deck clearance = | Ship ramps = | Ship ice class = | Ship power = Oil-fired steam turbines,{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 588}} 2500 ihp{{sfn|Marine Review|1921|p=97}} | Ship propulsion = Single screw | Ship sail plan = | Ship speed =11.5 knots{{sfn|Marine Review|1921|p=97}} | Ship endurance = | Ship test depth = | Ship boats = | Ship capacity = 344,963 gallons | Ship troops = | Ship complement = | Ship crew = | Ship time to activate = | Ship sensors = | Ship EW = | Ship armament = | Ship armour = | Ship armor = | Ship aircraft = | Ship aircraft facilities = | Ship notes = }} |
SS Cassimir was a Design 1022 cargo ship built for the United States Shipping Board immediately after World War I.
History
She was laid down at yard number 1531 at the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania shipyard of the American International Shipbuilding Corporation, one of 110 Design 1022 cargo ships built for the United States Shipping Board.{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 588}} She was completed in 1920 and named Cassimir.{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 589}}{{sfn|Marine Review|1921|p=97}} In 1920, she was purchased by the American Fuel & Transportation Company{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 589}} and converted into a tanker by the Globe Shipbuilding Company in Baltimore{{sfn|Marine Review|1921|p=17}} with a 344,963 gallon capacity. In 1921, she was returned to the USSB.{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 589}} In 1922, she was purchased by the Curtis Bay Copper & Iron Works (Baltimore, Maryland).{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 589}} In 1923, she was purchased by the Cuban Distilling Company {{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 589}} where she was utilized to transport blackstrap molasses, a byproduct of sugar refining, to the United States where it would be used to produce cattle feed, vinegar and denatured alcohol.
On February 26, 1942, she collided with the U.S. freighter SS Lara and sank southeast of Wilmington, North Carolina ({{coord|33|28|N|77|34|W|display=inline, title}}).{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/TheOfficialChronologyOfTheUSNavyInWorldWarII/page/n159/mode/2up?q=Cassimir|first=Robert|last=Cressman|title=The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II |pages= |publisher=2016}}
Citations
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References
- {{Cite web|title=1930-1931 Cassimir |website=Lloyd's Register of Ships|date= 1930|url=https://plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk/shipdata/pdfs/30/30b0222.pdf }}
Bibliography
- {{cite web |url=http://www.shipscribe.com/mckellar/Contract2.pdf |title=Steel Shipbuilding under the U. S. Shipping Board, 1917-1921, Part II, Contract Steel Ships, p. 588 |last=McKellar |first=Norman L. |work=Steel Shipbuilding under the U. S. Shipping Board, 1917-1921 |publisher=ShipScribe |access-date=1 May 2014 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Marine Review |year=1921 |title=1920 Construction Record of U.S. Yards -Cassimir|journal=The Marine Review |volume=51 |issue=February |page=17 and 97 |location=New York |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VG8-AQAAMAAJ&q=cassimir&pg=PA97 |access-date=27 March 2021}}
External links
- [https://www.shipscribe.com/mckellar/pix/1022.html EFC Design 1022: Illustrations]
{{Design 1022 ships|state=collapsed}}
{{February 1942 shipwrecks}}
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Category:Ships built in Philadelphia
Category:Merchant ships of the United States
Category:Maritime incidents in February 1942
Category:Tankers of the United States
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