SS Suremico
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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=*Suremico (1920–1930) | Ship namesake= William H. Remick | Ship owner= *USSB (1920–1930){{sfn|McKellar|p=Part III, 77}}
| Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Submarine Boat Corporation, Newark | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number=139{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part III, 77}} | Ship way number= | Ship laid down=24 February 1920 | Ship launched=17 September 1920{{sfn|The Marine Review 1921|p=100}} | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=October 1920 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification=*US Official Number 220694{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part III, 74}}
| Ship nickname= | Ship fate=Sunk by enemy aircraft, 8 December 1941 | Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = | Ship type =Design 1023 Cargo ship | Ship displacement = | Ship length ={{convert|324.0|ft|m|abbr=on}} registry length | Ship beam ={{convert|46.2|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height = | Ship draught = | Ship draft ={{convert|25|ft|m|abbr=on}}{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part III, 74}} | Ship depth ={{convert|25.0|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship hold depth = | Ship decks = | Ship deck clearance = | Ship ramps = | Ship ice class = | Ship power =386 NHP | Ship propulsion =*2 oil fired boilers, steam turbine, single screw propeller
| Ship sail plan = | Ship speed ={{cvt|10.5|knots}} | Ship range ={{convert|10080|nmi | abbr=on}}
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Suremico was a Design 1023 cargo ship built for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) immediately after World War I. She was later named the Nisqually and converted into a barge and later a scow. She was bombed and sunk during the Battle of Wake Island.
History
She was laid down at yard number 139 at the Newark, New Jersey shipyard of the Submarine Boat Corporation (SBC), one of 132 Design 1023 cargo ships built for the United States Shipping Board (there were 154 ships of the class built in total).{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part III, 77}} She was launched on 17 September 1920,{{sfn|The Marine Review 1921|p=100}} completed in October 1920,{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part III, 77}} and named the SS Suremico.{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part III, 77}}{{sfn|The Marine Review 1921|p=100}} She was named after William H. Remick, former president of the New York Stock Exchange (her name being a portmanteau of her manufacturer and her namesake, SUbmarine Boat REMIck COrporation).{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=soZLAQAAMAAJ&dq=suremico&pg=RA10-PA9|first=|last=|authorlink=|title=Speed-up, Volume 6|pages=9 |publisher=Submarine Boat Corporation|date=November 15, 1923|isbn=}} On June 3, 1927, while en route from Vancouver to Seattle with a load of lumber, she was involved in a collision in heavy fog with the French cargo ship SS Arkansas near the entrance to Strait of Juan de Fuca off Cape Flattery Light.{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink= |title= Annual DepartmentalReports of the Dominion of Canada, 1928, v.4 |website=Department of National Revenue, (Customs and Excise)|date=March 31, 1928 |url=https://archive.org/stream/v4annualdepartme1928canauoft/v4annualdepartme1928canauoft_djvu.txt |accessdate=}}{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink= |title=Salvage Vessel Races To French Cargo Ship. Arkansas Leaking After Collision. Crashes With SS Suremico Operating Out of This Port Rammed in Fog |website=The Province (Vancouver)|date=June 3, 1927 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/500928163/ |accessdate=}} The USRC Snohomish, {{HMCS|Malaspina}}, and the Pacific Salvage Company's Salvage King out of Victoria, British Columbia rushed to provide assistance. Both ships were so heavily damaged that the Arkansas required towage to Seattle and the USSB deemed the Suremico a total loss; and rather than repair her, the USSB removed her equipment and engines for the use of other ships in the fleet.{{Cite news|first= |last= |authorlink= |title=The Suremico was so badly damaged when she collided with the French steamship Arkansas off Tatoosh Island on June 3, that it was decided to scrap the vessel. |newspaper=The Daily Colonist|date=19 August 1927|url=https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist0727uvic_43/dailycolonist0727uvic_43_djvu.txt |quote=}} In 1930, her hull was purchased by Pioneer Transportation Company, renamed Nisqually, and converted into a barge.{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part III, 77}} In 1937, she was converted into a scow.{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part III, 77}}
On 8 December 1941, she was bombed and sunk by Japanese planes during the Battle of Wake Island.{{cite web |url=http://www.usmm.org/pacific.html#anchor446443 |title=US ships lost in the Pacific during World War II |publisher=USMM.org |access-date=3 January 2014}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yx9NdtmOji0C&dq=%22nisqually%22&pg=PA756|first=|last=|authorlink=|title=Merchant Vessels of the United States 1944|pages=756 |publisher=United States Treasury Department - Bureau of Customs|date=January 1, 1944|isbn=}}
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite web |url=http://www.shipscribe.com/mckellar/Contract3.pdf |title=Steel Shipbuilding under the U. S. Shipping Board, 1917-1921, Part III, Contract Steel Ships |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 |year=1921 |title=1920 Construction Record of U.S. Yards |journal=The Marine Review |volume=51 |issue=February |page=100 |location=New York |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VG8-AQAAMAAJ&q=suremico&pg=PA101 |access-date=27 March 2021 |ref={{sfnref|The Marine Review 1921}}}}
External links
- [https://www.shipscribe.com/mckellar/pix/1023.html EFC Design 1023: Illustrations]
{{Design 1023 ships|state=collapsed}}
{{December 1941 shipwrecks}}
{{Wake}}
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Category:Merchant ships of the United States
Category:Maritime incidents in December 1941