SS Manistee (1920)
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SS Manistee was an Elders & Fyffes Ltd banana boat that was launched in 1920. She was one of a numerous class of similar banana boats built for Elders & Fyffes in the 1920s.
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Manistee |
Owner | Elders & Fyffes Ltd |
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Port of registry | Liverpool |
Route | Bristol – Jamaica – Central America |
Builder | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
Yard number | 884 |
Launched | 28 October 1920 |
Completed | January 1921 |
Identification |
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Fate | Sunk by torpedo, 24 February 1941 |
General characteristics | |
Type | banana boat |
Tonnage | 5,360 GRT, 3,288 NRT |
Length | 400.2 ft (122.0 m) |
Beam | 51.1 ft (15.6 m) |
Depth | 30.3 ft (9.2 m) |
Installed power | 447 NHP |
Propulsion | triple expansion steam engine |
Speed | 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h) |
Capacity |
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Crew | 141 (in Royal Navy service) |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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Notes | third of 16 sister ships |
In 1940 the British Admiralty requisitioned Manistee and had her converted into an ocean boarding vessel. She was a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic until a U-boat sank her in 1941. None of her 141 crew survived.
She was the second of four Elders & Fyffes ships called Manistee. The first was built in 1904 and sunk by a U-boat in 1917. The third was built in 1932 as Eros, bought in 1946 and renamed Manistee, and scrapped in 1960. The fourth was built in 1972, transferred out of the Elders & Fyffes fleet in 1983, renamed Fleet Wave in 1984 and Mimoza in 1990.[1]