SS ''Comol Cuba'' (ex-''Dora'', ex-''Inspector'', ex-''Red Jacket'') was a Design 1022

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built for the

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immediately after

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. Converted to a tanker, she spent most of her career transporting

molasses Molasses () is a viscous substance resulting from refining sugarcane or sugar beets into sugar. Molasses varies in the amount of sugar, method of extraction and age of the plant. Sugarcane molasses is primarily used to sweeten and flavour foods ...

, a byproduct of sugar refining, to the United States. During World War II, she transported petroleum before returning to the private sector.

History

She was laid down as ''Red Jacket'', yard number 1482 at the

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

shipyard of the American International Shipbuilding Corporation, one of 110 Design 1022 cargo ships built for the

. She was launched as the '' Inspector'' on 18 September 2019 and completed on 31 October 1919. In 1921, she was purchased by the Dunbar Molasses Company and converted into a tanker with a 344,963 gallon capacity. In 1927, she was purchased by the U.S. Tank Ship Corporation and renamed ''Dora''. In 1928, she was purchased by private investors via the Steamship Dora Corporation, a New York incorporated

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established specifically for her purchase, with U.S. Tank Ship Corporation as ship manager. In 1938, she was purchased by the Commercial Molasses Corporation and renamed ''Comol Cuba''. In 1939, her registration was changed to

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. During

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, she operated mostly in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. In January 1943, she was part of convoy PK-135, the last

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convoy. In the fourth quarter of 1948, she was broken up in

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by the Southern Scrap Materials Company.

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External links

EFC Design 1022: Illustrations
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