SS Dorothy Phillips

{{Infobox ship begin}} {{Infobox ship image |Ship image= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country= United States |Ship flag= {{shipboxflag|United States|1945}} |Ship name= *Point Loma (1918–1937) Dorothy Phillips (1937–1946) Karen Olson (1946–1957) Rio Tigre (1957–1961) |Ship namesake=*Point Loma Dorothy Phillips Rio Tigre |Ship owner=*USSB (1918–1923) |Ship operator= |Ship registry= |Ship route= |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder= Albina Engine & Machine Works, Portland |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number= 1 |Ship way number= |Ship laid down= 18 April 1917 |Ship launched=3 November 1917 |Ship sponsor= |Ship christened=Margit |Ship completed= 7 March 1918 |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship maiden voyage= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship homeport= |Ship identification=*US Official Number 216021 Call sign LJSB {{ICS|Lima}}{{ICS|Juliett}}{{ICS|Sierra}}{{ICS|Bravo}} |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honours= |Ship honors= |Ship captured= |Ship fate=Broken up, 1962 |Ship notes= |Ship badge=

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|Ship tonnage=*{{GRT|2119}}

• {{NRT|1289}}
• {{DWT|3270}}

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|Ship length={{convert|251.0|ft|m|2|abbr=on}}

|Ship beam={{convert|43.5|ft|m|2|abbr=on}}

|Ship depth={{convert|18.1|ft|m|2|abbr=on}}

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|Ship power=279 nhp, {{cvt|1200|ihp}}

|Ship propulsion=Albina Engine & Machine Works 3-cylinder triple expansion

|Ship speed={{convert|9.5|kn|lk=in}}

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• 1 × 5-inch (127 mm)/38-caliber gun
• 1 × 3-inch (76 mm)/50-caliber gun

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SS Dorothy Phillips was a 2,119-ton cargo ship that was attacked during World War II. The {{Jsub|I-23}} fired at her on December 24, 1941. Dorothy Phillips was damaged in the attack off the coast of Monterey, California. In the attack the ship's rudder was damaged and the ship could not steer and ran aground. Dorothy Phillips was built in 1918 by Albina Engine and Machine Works in Portland, Oregon. The attack helped put fear into the West Coast of the United States and started the Battle of Los Angeles. {{SS|Emidio}} and {{SS|Larry Doheny}} were also attacked and sank off the west coast.[http://www.militarymuseum.org/Phillips.html militarymuseum.org, SS Dorothy Phillips][https://vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/7640 vesselhistory SS Dorothy Phillips]The H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, by Gordon R. Newell, Pages 423, 541Panic on the Pacific: How America Prepared for the West Coast Invasion, By Bill Yenne

Dorothy Phillips was built by Albina Engine & Machine Works in a shipyard along the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States, for a Scandinavian shipping line and was requisitioned by the Emergency Fleet Corporation during World War I as Point Loma.{{cite web |url=https://www.shipscribe.com/mckellar/Requisition1.pdf |title=Steel Shipbuilding under the U. S. Shipping Board, 1917-1921, Part I, The Requisitioned Ships |last=McKellar |first=Norman L. |work=Steel Shipbuilding under the U. S. Shipping Board, 1917-1921 |publisher=ShipScribe |access-date=13 February 2021}} In 1937, she was sold and renamed Dorothy Phillips. In 1946, she was sold and renamed Karen Olson. In 1957, she was sold and renamed Rio Tigre. In 1962, she was scrapped.