USS Mizar (AF-12)
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USS Mizar (AF-12) was the United Fruit Company fruit, mail and passenger liner Quirigua that served as a United States Navy Mizar-class stores ship in World War II. Quirigua was one of six fast turbo-electric transmission driven ships built for United Fruit's subsidiary United Mail Steamship Company, the first of its ships built in the U.S., to take advantage of subsidies and mail contracts. The ships were refrigerated fruit carriers with substantial passenger capacity and, as a result of the mail contract connection, termed "Mail class" by the line. Three were built by Newport News Shipbuilding and three by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation of Quincy, Massachusetts. Quirigua was the second of the group built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding. Three ships served the Pacific routes and three the
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USS Mizar (AF-12)
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*Mizar (1941–46)
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*Quirigua (1932–41, 1946–58)
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*Samala (1958–64)
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12745247
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1932-06-08
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*United Mail Steamship Company
*US Navy
*Elders and Fyffes
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August 1930
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4
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more than 100
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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
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*Commercial:
*Passengers: design 113, postwar 95
*Cargo:
* refrigerated
* baggage, mail & other
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*"Mail class"
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Navy: 238
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--06-04
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Commercial: 112
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10940
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Scrapped 1964
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*U.S. Official Number: 231645
*Signal: KDCR
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1931
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1932-02-06
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* (registry)
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*Quirigua
*Mizar
*Samala
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--06-02
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2
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New York US and UK
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, ,
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Civilian: passenger, fruit and mail liner
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1445
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New York to Caribbean and Central America
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USS Mizar (AF-12) was the United Fruit Company fruit, mail and passenger liner Quirigua that served as a United States Navy Mizar-class stores ship in World War II. Quirigua was one of six fast turbo-electric transmission driven ships built for United Fruit's subsidiary United Mail Steamship Company, the first of its ships built in the U.S., to take advantage of subsidies and mail contracts. The ships were refrigerated fruit carriers with substantial passenger capacity and, as a result of the mail contract connection, termed "Mail class" by the line. Three were built by Newport News Shipbuilding and three by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation of Quincy, Massachusetts. Quirigua was the second of the group built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding. Three ships served the Pacific routes and three the Atlantic routes with Quirigua operating out of New York. During the build up of United States defenses and potential war state the ship was acquired for use by the Navy under a bareboat charter as refrigerated stores ships on 2 June 1941 that was administered by the War Shipping Administration (WSA) on creation of that organization in early 1942. The ship was commissioned USS Mizar and served in the Atlantic and Pacific. Mizar decommissioned and returned to WSA at Baltimore 1 April 1946 then, with United Fruit operating the vessel under a General Agency Agreement with WSA, the ship arrived in August 1946 at Bethlehem Steel's Staten Island Shipyard for re-conversion to former use. The conversion complete, the ship was returned to its owner 15 February 1947 as Quirigua. United Fruit transferred the ship to its British subsidiary Elders and Fyffes where it served as Samala, after an earlier Fyffes ship, until scrapping 1964.
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1932-02-06
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1932-06-08
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