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| Ship name= ''Carrabulle''
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| Ship owner= *{{nowrap| United States Shipping Board (1920)<br> American Fuel & Transportion Company (1920)<br>  United States Shipping Board (1921–1922)<br> Curtis Bay Copper & Iron Works (1922–1923)<br> Cuban Distilling Company (1923–1942)}}
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| Ship builder=[[American International Shipbuilding Corporation]], [[Philadelphia]]
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| Ship yard number=1530{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 589}}
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| Ship identification=*US [[Official number#US Official Number|Official Number]] 220597{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 589}}
*[[code letters]]: MBKR<ref name=ALMV-Signal>{{cite book|title=Fifty Second Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States - Seagoing vessels, Arranged in Order of Signal Letters| url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015026504491&view=1up&seq=864&skin=2021&q1|page=94 }}</ref>
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| Ship type                = [[Design 1022 ship|Design 1022]] [[cargo ship]]
| Ship tonnage             = *{{GRT|5030}}<ref name=ALMV-Signal/>
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| Ship power               = Oil-fired [[steam turbine]]s,{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 588}} 2500 ihp{{sfn|Marine Review|1921|p=97}}
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| Ship speed               =11.5 knots{{sfn|Marine Review|1921|p=97}}
| Ship range               =9,000 miles<ref name=ALMV-Oil>{{cite book|title=Fifty Second Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States - Seagoing Merchant Steam Vessels of 500 Gross Tons and Over Fitted For Burning Oil Fuel |page=462 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015026504491&view=1up&seq=564&skin=2021&q1=carrabulle}}</ref>
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'''SS''' '''''Carrabulle''''' was a [[Design 1022 ship|Design 1022]] [[cargo ship]] built for the [[United States Shipping Board]] immediately after [[World War I]].

==History==
She was laid down at [[yard number]] 1530 at the [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] shipyard of the [[American International Shipbuilding Corporation]], one of 110 [[Design 1022 ship|Design 1022 cargo ships]] built for the [[United States Shipping Board]].{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 588}} She was completed in 1920 and named ''Carrabulle''.{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 589}}{{sfn|Marine Review|1921|p=97}}  In 1920, she was purchased by the American Fuel & Transportation Company{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 589}} and converted into a tanker by the Globe Shipbuilding Company in Baltimore{{sfn|Marine Review|1921|p=17}} with a 344,963 gallon capacity.<ref name=ALMV-Oil/> In 1921, she was returned to the USSB.{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 589}} In 1922, she was purchased by the Curtis Bay Copper & Iron Works (Baltimore, Maryland).{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 589}} In 1923, she was purchased by the Cuban Distilling Company{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 589}} where she was utilized to transport [[blackstrap molasses]], a byproduct of sugar refining, to the United States where it would be used to produce cattle feed, vinegar and [[denatured alcohol]] (in high demand due to [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]]).

On May 26, 1942, she was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine [[German submarine U-106 (1940)|'' U-106'']] in the [[Gulf of Mexico]] ({{coord|26|18|N|89|21|W|display=inline, title}}).<ref name=Cressman>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/TheOfficialChronologyOfTheUSNavyInWorldWarII/page/n203/mode/2up?q=Carrabulle|first=Robert|last=Cressman|title=The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II |year=2000 |pages= |publisher=2016|isbn=9781557501493 }}</ref> 22 men were killed and 18 were rescued by the US [[Type C1 ship|Type C1-B]] freighter ''Thompson Lykes''.<ref name=Cressman/>

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==References==
*{{Cite web|title=1930-1931 ''Carrabulle'' |website=[[Lloyd's Register]] of Ships|date= 1930|url=https://plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk/shipdata/pdfs/30/30b0220.pdf}}

==Bibliography==
*{{cite web |url=http://www.shipscribe.com/mckellar/Contract2.pdf |title=Steel Shipbuilding under the U. S. Shipping Board, 1917-1921, Part II, Contract Steel Ships, p. 588 |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 |last=Marine Review |year=1921 |title=1920 Construction Record of U.S. Yards -Carrabulle|journal=The Marine Review |volume=51 |issue=February |page=17 and 97 |location=New York |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VG8-AQAAMAAJ&q=carrabulle&pg=PA97 |access-date=27 March 2021 }}

==External links==
* [https://www.shipscribe.com/mckellar/pix/1022.html EFC Design 1022: Illustrations]

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[[Category:1920 ships]]
[[Category:Ships built in Philadelphia]]
[[Category:Merchant ships of the United States]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in May 1942]]
[[Category:Design 1022 ships]]
[[Category:Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II]]
[[Category:Tankers of the United States]]


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