The SS Sacketts Harbor was a T2 tanker that was built in August 1943. The T2 tanker, or T2, was an oil tanker constructed and produced in large quantities in the United States during World War II. It served in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II. Overview The merchant marine is a civilian auxiliary of the U World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The ship was a namesake of Sackets Harbor, New York. Sackets Harbor is a Village in Jefferson County, New York, United States.
Sacketts Harbor survived the war basically unscathed but on 1 March 1946 it was sailing between Yokosuka and Balboa when it broke in half about 800 miles southwest of Adak, Alaska. Events 86 BC - Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army enters in Athens, removing the Tyrant Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. is a city located in Kanagawa, Japan. It is located at the mouth of Tokyo Bay in the Miura Peninsula, and the city stretches across Balboa is a district of Panama City, located at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. Adak (ˈeɪdæk formerly Adak Station, is a city in Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, United States. The bow of the ship was sunk but the stern continued to float. The stern section was able to get to Adak under its own power. The only reported fatalities were two cats.
The ship was later towed to Anchorage, Alaska where it served as Anchorage's first major power source. The ship's electric drive supplied about 55% of Anchorage's electricity requirements from 1946 to 1955. In 1955, it was replaced by the Eklutna Hydroelectric Plant. The ship was given a new bow around 1957 and was rechristened as the SS Angelo Petri. It was fitted with stainless steel tanks and hauled wine for the Associated Vintners from Stockton, California through the Panama Canal to the East Coast. Stockton is a City in California and the seat of San Joaquin County (the fifth largest agricultural county in the United States The Panama Canal is a man-made Canal in Panama which joins the
Around 1970, the ship was sold and renamed the Californian. It has apparently been lost on records and its whereabouts are unknown.
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