American International Shipbuilding Corp., Hog Island
Yard number
536
Launched
23 August 1919
Completed
October 1919
Identification
US official number 218960
Code letters LTBR (until 1933)
Call sign KJJU (1934 onward)
Fate
Torpedoed and shelled 21 May 1941
General characteristics
Class and type
Design 1022 cargo ship
Tonnage
4,999 GRT, 3,057 NRT
Length
390.0 ft (118.9 m)
Beam
54.2 ft (16.5 m)
Depth
27.6 ft (8.4 m)
Decks
2
Installed power
600 NHP
Propulsion
steam turbine
Speed
11.5 knots (21 km/h)
Crew
46
SS Robin Moor was a United States cargo steamship that was built in 1919 and sunk by a U-boat in May 1941, several months before the US entered World War II.
The U-boat allowed the passengers and crew to launch her lifeboats and abandon ship with no loss of life. However, the sinking of a neutral ship in an area considered until then to be relatively safe from U-boats, and the plight of her crew and passengers, caused a political incident in the United States.
The attack caused many to question the motives of U-69's commander, Jost Metzler as Hitler himself, preparing for his June 1941 invasion of Russia, had expressly ordered his Navy chief, Admiral Erich Raeder: "...in the next weeks all attacks on naval vessels in the closed area should cease..." Hitler did not wish to provoke America into joining with Britain in its fight against Germany.[citation needed]
SSRobin is a 350 gross registered ton (GRT) steam coaster, a class of steamship designed for carrying bulk and general cargoes in coastal waters, and...
sea charts of the United States Atlantic coastline. In May 1941, the SSRobinMoor was carrying nine officers, 29 crewmen, seven or eight passengers, and...
II.[citation needed] USS Argonne SS Capillo USS Capella (ex-Comerant) SS City of Flint SS Liberty Glo SSRobinMoor USS Samaritan USAT St. Mihiel / USS...
the crew of World War II German submarine U-69, whose sinking of the SSRobinMoor was significant to US entry into World War II. La Vache qui Rit is the...
dangerous for unescorted American as well as British ships. On May 21, SSRobinMoor, an American vessel carrying no military supplies, was sunk by U-69...
shipping supplies to the Nationalists. After the German sinking of SSRobinMoor by German submarine U-69 in May 1941, Nye said he would be "very much...
sunk southeast of Crete by Italian aircraft. The American steamship SSRobinMoor was stopped in the tropical Atlantic by the German submarine U-69. The...
military history. May 21 – German submarine U-69 sinks the U.S.-flagged SSRobinMoor off the west African coast, having allowed the passengers and crew to...
yield to such "outrageous and indefensible" acts as the sinking of the SSRobinMoor and said that Germany would be held accountable. The United States Army...
21 – World War II: 950 miles off the coast of Brazil, the freighter SSRobinMoor becomes the first United States (neutral) ship sunk by a German U-boat...
2012. "Pelegrino Matteucci". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 7 February 2020. "SSRobin Moof (+1941)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 18 October 2011. "Loss of U.S. Cargo...
USS Sea Robin (SS-407), a Balao-class submarine, was a vessel of the United States Navy named for the sea robin. This is a spiny-finned fish with red...
named after Alhena, a star in the constellation Gemini. Robin Kettering had been purchased from Robin Line of the Seas Shipping Company some four months after...
being built at the dock (linking to the West India Quay DLR station). The SSRobin and the Steam Tug Portwey have been moved away from the dock as a result...
commission an entirely new boat, management decided to convert the decommissioned SS Nipissing from a paddle-wheeler to a twin propeller passenger steamer. Nipissing's...
species. In the wetter areas, besides purple moor grass and sharp-flowered rush, species include ragged-robin, meadowsweet and wild angelica; in waterlogged...
History displays a model of the ship in her SS Hamburg guise. On 25 January 1974 Hanseatic was sold to Robin International, New York City, who immediately...
contributed heavily to American rapper Zebra Katz's debut record LESS IS MOOR in March, and appeared on Dorian Electra's My Agenda project in October,...
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