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SS Musa was a refrigerated banana boat of the United Fruit Company.[1] She was built in 1930 and still in service in 1945.[4]
History | |
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Panama, Honduras | |
Name | SS Musa |
Owner | |
Operator | United Fruit Company[1][2] |
Port of registry | |
Builder | Workman, Clark and Company, Belfast[1] |
Completed | 1930[1][2] |
Identification | |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | |
Length | 416.4 ft (126.9 m)[1] |
Beam | 56.3 ft (17.2 m)[1] |
Depth | 30.9 ft (9.4 m)[1] |
Propulsion | |
Speed | 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h)[3] |
Sensors and processing systems | echo sounding device[1] |
Notes | sister ship: SS Platano |
Musa was built by Workman, Clark and Company of Belfast, Northern Ireland and completed in 1930.[1] United Fruit had a sister ship, SS Platano, built in the same year by Cammell Laird of Birkenhead, England.[5]
Musa had turbo-electric transmission built by British Thomson-Houston of Rugby, Warwickshire.[1] Her oil-fired boilers supplied steam to a turbo generator that fed current to a propulsion motor on her single propeller shaft.[1]
Musa was owned by a United Fruit subsidiary, Balboa Shipping Co, Inc, which registered her under the Panamanian flag of convenience.[1][2] In the Second World War the US War Shipping Administration allocated Musa and Platano to the United States Army Transportation Corps.[6]
On 18 February 1943 the Director of the Naval Transportation Service approved acquiring the two ships as United States Navy auxiliary ships and on 1 March the Auxiliary Vessels Board endorsed the decision.[6] Soon the plan was changed, with an older banana boat, SS Ulua, being substituted for Musa.[6] The Navy's acquisition of Platano was deferred and in May 1944 it was finally canceled.[6]
By 1964 United Fruit had transferred Platano from Balboa Shipping to another subsidiary, Empressa Hondurena de Vapores, which registered her under the Honduran flag of convenience.[3]
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