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USS Mulberry (AN 27)

Net tender of the Aloe class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeNet tender
ClassAloe 
PennantAN 27 
Built byAmerican Shipbuilding Co. (Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down18 Oct, 1940 
Launched26 Mar, 1941 
Commissioned1 Nov, 1941 
End service11 Apr, 1960 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned on 11 April 1960
Transferred to Ecuador in November 1965 being renamed Orion (H-101)
Scrapped in 1980 

Noteable events involving Mulberry include:

8 Mar, 1942
USS Mulberry picks up the survivors of the American merchant Cardonia that was torpedoed and sunk the day before by the German submarine U-126 about 5 nautical miles west-north-west of the St. Nicholas Mole, Haiti in position 19º53'N, 73º27'W.

6 May, 1942
USS Mulberry picks up the survivors of the American merchant Afoundria that was torpedoed and sunk the day before by the German submarine U-108 about 8 nautical miles north of Le Male Light, Haiti in position 19º59'N, 73º26'W.


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