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TIVIVES

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Built under yard No 304 as a passenger/cargo/reefer vessel by Workman, Clark & Co., Ltd. Belfast for Tropical Fruit SS., Ltd., Glasgow (United Fruit Co., Boston).
Launched under the name TIVIVES, her intended name was PERALTA but before launching altered. The TIVIVES was most probably named after the small coastal port Tivives in Costa Rica, on the Pacific coast.
Tonnage 5.107 gross, 3.115 net, 4.500 dwt. Dim. 392 x 50.3 x 29.1ft., length between pp. 378.8ft.
Powered by a triple expansion steam engine 3.000 ihp., single screw, speed 14 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 100 passengers.
Three decks.
1911 Delivered under U.K. flag.

Used mostly in the fruit trade from the Caribbean to the USA east coast ports, but during the 1930s she did also some Pacific voyages.

1914 Transferred to Tivives Steamship Corp., New York. (United Fruit Co., Boston.) under USA flag.
05 July 1918 chartered by USA Navy and commissioned the same day.
Armament 1 – 5 inch, 1 – 3 inch gun.
Crew 91.
Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service under the name TIVISES (No. 4521).
She loaded 1.603 tons of beef and eight motor trucks, and sailed on 13 July in convoy to France.
Arrived in the Gironde on the 28th and moved the next day to St Nazaire, where she discharged her cargo.
From St Nazaire she sailed to Verdon and from this place she sailed in convoy on 15 August to the USA.
After arrival in New York City on 26th August she underwent minor repairs.
After her repairs took on board 1.704 ton of beef and sailed in convoy on 2 September for Europe.
After discharging in Rochefort. France she sailed for Verdon from where she left on 30 September, arriving in New York on 13 October.
19 October sailed from New York across the North Atlantic with a cargo of beef for the USA Army, arrived Verdon, France, 06 November.
11 December 1918 when she was discharging her cargo, Germany signed the armistice ending hostilities, one week later she sailed home, and arrived at New York on 03 December 1918.
At New York loaded 1.857 tons of beef and butter and left New York on Christmas Day, bound again for Verdon, where she arrived 04 January 1919, after discharging, took on board a cargo of American military equipment, and sailed for the USA on 22 January.
05 February arrived at New York, and after discharging she loaded an other cargo off beef for Europe, left 15 February and arrived the last day of February at Verdon.
15 March she sailed again from this port and across the North Atlantic to New York, where she arrived 27 March.
25 April 1919 handed back to her owner.

Again in the fruit service from the Caribbean.
1923 Transferred to United Fruit SS Co. Inc., New York.
1933 Superstructure cut down, passenger accommodation decreased to 30 passengers.
July 1936 lost her passenger certificates, and carried then only 12 passengers.
During World War II chartered on a bare-boat contract to U.S. War Shipping Administration.

21 October 1943 on a voyage from Algiers to Oran with 1.750 ton refrigerated cargo during a German air raid torpedoed and sunk in position 36 55N 01.36E.
Of the crew of 80 people, two were lost.

On St. Vincent & Grenadines 1996 $ 1.10 sg 3483.

Source: Lloyds War Losses, the Second World War. Going Bananas by Mark H. Goldberg.
Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1911. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

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