SS Marine Marlin

SS Marine Marlin was a type C4-S-A3 ship built in 1945 by Kaiser Shipyards, Vancouver, Washington, as a troop transport ship. She had a capacity to carry 3,485 troops and was built for operation by the War Shipping Administration.

SS Marine Marlin
History
Operator:
Builder: Kaiser Shipyards
Yard number: 511
Launched: 1945
Completed: October 1945
Maiden voyage: Bremen-New York, 7–16 September 1946[1]
Fate: Scrapped 1972
General characteristics
Type:
  • C4-S-A3 troop transport (1945–1946)
  • Passenger ship (1946–)
  • Dry cargo ship (1965–1972)
Tonnage: 12,410 GT
Length: 523 ft (159 m)
Beam: 71.7 ft (21.9 m)
Capacity:
  • 3,485 troops (1945–1946)
  • 926 tourist class passengers (1946–1949)

After the war, she, along with many of her sister ships, spent a few years ferrying refugees and repatriating soldiers from the war.[2] In 1946 she was chartered to the United States Lines and fitted to carry 926 tourist class passengers. She made her first voyage, from Bremen to New York City, 7–16 September 1946, carrying "more than 500 Jewish immigrants from the United States zone of Germany" including "ten orphaned Jewish children...brought... under the sponsorship of the United States Committee for the care of European Children"[3] . She completed her last crossing, from Bremen to New York, on 17 July 1949, on which passengers were mostly from Stuttgart, Germany, and were of Armenian descent.[4][5]

In 1952 she was intended to be transferred to the U.S. Navy as a transport but was not acquired.

In 1965 she was converted to a dry cargo ship for Central Gulf Steamship Corp. and renamed Green Bay. On 17 August 1971, she was sunk in Qui Nonh harbor after an underwater explosion caused by Viet Cong frogmen while discharging military supplies. On 1 September 1971, she was refloated and towed to Hong Kong where she was scrapped in 1972.

References
  1. A passenger on the maiden voyage
  2. "Photograph of SS Marine Marlin, 1946-1949 | Pier 21". pier21.ca. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
  3. "Over 500 Jewish Refugees Will Arrive Here Today on S.s. Marine Marlin". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 1946-09-16. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
  4. "Ship Descriptions – M". The Ships List.
  5. "Kaiser Vancouver, Vancouver WA". Large Wartime Shipbuilders. Shipbuilding History.


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