SS San Pablo
SS San Pablo is a ship's name. The shipname is derived from Saint Paul (Spanish: San Pablo), a Christian saint, with the ship prefix "SS" which stands for steamship.
List
[edit]Ships carrying this name include:
- SS San Pablo (sank 1888), a 19th century passenger collier running service between San Francisco and Hong Kong for the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company;[1] that wrecked on 20 April 1888,[2] having ran aground on Niushan Island, Fujian Province, China; was captured by pirates and burned
- SS San Pablo (1902), a river steamboat built in 1902, that served as the Peruvian river gunboat Coronel Portillo 1929–1959.[3]
- SS San Pablo (1915), a refrigerated merchant steamship built in 1915, that sank on 3 July 1942 in Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, which was sunk by the German submarine U-161 in World War II,[4] that was refloated and sunk in 1943 as a targetship near Panama City, Florida, US;[5] and now serves as a dive site called "Russian Freighter" in the Pensacola region;[6] see Naval Base Trinidad
- SS San Pablo (tanker) (IMO number: 542237), a tanker ship, a Liberty ship built in 1943 as Paul Tulane (244681); the former USS Kangaroo (IX-121), in U.S. Navy service 1943–1946; receiving the name "San Pablo" in 1963, scrapped in 1969.[7]
- SS San Pablo (ferry), a 20th-century car ferry operating in Brickyard Cove, Richmond, California, United States
See also
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Search for "SS San Pablo" or "S.S. San Pablo" on Wikipedia.
- USS San Pablo (disambiguation)
- San Pablo (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with SS San Pablo
- All pages with titles containing SS San Pablo
References
[edit]- ^ "S.S. San Pablo, 1887 (oil on canvas)". Bridgeman Images. id 703783.
- ^ "SS San Pablo (+1888)". wrecksite.eu. id 283133.
- ^ "NH 45428 CORONEL PORTILLO (Peruvian River Gunboat, 1902-circa 1959)". Navy History and Heritage Command. U.S. Navy. NH 45428.
- ^ "San Pablo". Ships hit by U-boats. uboat.net. id 1881.
- ^ "San Pablo SS (1915~1920) San Pablo SS (+1943)". wrecksite.eu. id 206316.
- ^ "San Pablo / Russian Freighter". DiveBuddy. id 772.
- ^ Auke Visser. "Paul Tulane". Auke Visser's Famous T - Tankers Pages. Auke Visser's Renewed Historical Tankers Site. id1192.
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