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Shabonee
T3-S-A1
Built August 1943 by Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, Sparrows Point, MD.,
as "Shabonee" # 524, for Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc., New York.
1955 - Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc., New York
1964 - Allegheny Ventura Corp., New York
Broken up at Bilbao 1965, arrived 26.11.1964, work began 01.02.1965.
( See photo below )
The Miramar Ship Index for "SHABONEE"
IDNo:
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2244028
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Year:
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1943
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Name:
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SHABONEE
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Launch Date:
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10.07.1943
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Type:
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Tanker
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Date of completion:
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08.1943
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Flag:
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USA
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Keel:
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DWT:
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16100
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Yard No:
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4386
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Length overall:
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152.9
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Ship Design:
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T3-S-A1
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LPP:
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148.6
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Country of build:
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USA
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Beam:
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20.7
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Builder:
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Bethlehem
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Material of build:
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Location of yard:
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Sparrow's Point
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Number of screws/Mchy/Speed(kn):
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1ST-15
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|
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Owner as Completed:
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Socony-Vacuum Oil Co Inc, New York
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Subsequent History:
-
Disposal Data:
Scrapped at Bilbao 26.11.1964.
History :
ON
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LR/IMO
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ID
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Year
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Name
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Tons
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Name change
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Main Owner
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244028
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2244028
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1943
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SHABONEE
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9910
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-
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Socony-Vacuum Oil
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"Shabonee".
( US Navy photo )
Shabonee
LOA 5017", Beam 68', Depth 37", 16,543 DWT, 133,813 bbls
Bethlehem turbines, cross-compound, Falk reduction gears, developing 7000SHP at 85RPM 15.0 knots
Launched 10 July 1943 at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Sparrows Point, Maryland, by Mrs Anna Karlsson, widow
of Captain GO Karlsson, who engaged an enemy surface raider with his non-combatant ship STANVAC CALCUTTA, and
met his death in the unequal struggle.
Commissioned 30 August 1943.
SHABONEE Served under government requisition, first in the Atlantic and later in the Pacific. As well as a cargo of
Navy fiiel in her tanks, she also carried a fiiU cargo on deck: a typical load consisted of six P51 aircraft;, three P47s and five P38s. She
was released from war service in January 1946. In June 1952, returning fi-om a Persian Gulf pick-up, she lost her rudder in mid-Atlantic.
(For a well-written and illustrated account of this misadventure, see the article "Rescue At Sea: The Case of the Missing rudder",
published in The Flying Horse, July-August, 1952.)