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SAN PATRICK
Manor Investments Inc, Monrovia
T2-SE-A1 conversion
28/07/1944
WHITE BIRD CANYON
Alabama Drydock & Shipbuilding Company, Mobile AL, USMC # 1505
1964- Converted to bulk carrier and lengthened at Kobe, 14,494 grt
Wrecked 17 December 1964 in heavy weather on Ulak Island - Aleutians (51.19N-178.58W),
voyage Vancouver / Yokohama - grain, vessel broke up in heavy seas during the gale, and all 32 crewmembers were lost.
Only one body was recovered.
The entire crew was from northwestern Spain.
Vancouver, November 24,1964
City of Vancouver Archives
Reference code CVA 447-7949
Photo by Walter E. Frost
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1964.....needed to be far off-shore to be sure. Nav-Aids were pretty poor back then.
RIP...Those 30 people.
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