USS Ariel (AF-22)
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USS Ariel (AF-22) was the United Fruit Company cargo and passenger liner Peten, renamed Jamaica in 1937, that served as a United States Navy Mizar-class stores ship in World War II.
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Namesake | Ariel in Shakespeare's The Tempest |
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Operator |
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Port of registry | New York |
Ordered | August 1930 |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co |
Yard number | 354 |
Laid down | 9 March 1931[1] |
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Acquired |
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Maiden voyage | 2 March 1933 |
In service | 1933 |
Out of service | 1969 |
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Fate | Scrapped 1969 |
Notes | Name Ariel struck from Navy list 3 July 1946 |
General characteristics [2][3] | |
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Tonnage | 6,968 GRT, 3,152 NRT |
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Length |
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Beam | 60.2 ft (18.3 m) |
Draft | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
Depth | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
Installed power | 4 oil fired Babcock & Wilcox header-type boilers, 350 psi 230° superheat driving GE generator sets for main propulsion and auxiliary power[2] |
Propulsion | 2 GE 4,200 kw, 5,500 hp at 125 rpm, twin 15 ft 6 in (4.7 m), 3 blade screws[2] |
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Complement | Navy: 238 |
Crew | Commercial: 113 |
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As Segovia it was launched on 15 August 1931 the same day as Talamanca, both ships christened by First Lady Lou Henry Hoover using water gathered from Central American rivers. Segovia burned at the fitting out pier and was almost completely destroyed. It was rebuilt under a different hull number and renamed Peten by Mrs. Hoover on the anniversary of the first, 15 August 1932. Peten was delivered to the company's United Mail Steamship Company subsidiary in February 1933. The ship served on the company's Atlantic routes between New York and Panama. In 1937 the ship was transferred to the direct ownership of the parent company and renamed Jamaica.
In March 1942 Jamaica was delivered to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) under bareboat charter and delivered to the Navy under sub bareboat charter to be commissioned Ariel named after the "airy and playful spirit" Ariel in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. 21 June 1946 Ariel was de-commissioned and returned to WSA for re-conversion as Jamaica to commercial service. The ship was returned to United Fruit in December 1947 and operated for that company until sold to a German company in 1957 to be renamed Blumenthal. The ship was scrapped in 1969.