USS Caribou (IX-114), an Armadillo-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the caribou. Her keel was laid down by the California Shipbuilding Corporation, in Wilmington, California, as Nathaniel B. Palmer under a Maritime Commission contract. She was launched on 2 November 1943 sponsored by Mrs. T. A. Gregory, acquired by the Navy on 25 November 1943 and commissioned the same day and reported to the Pacific Fleet.
Caribou stood out of Pearl Harbor on 10 February 1944 for Kwajalein and Eniwetok, where she served as station tanker until August, providing rear echelon support for the Fifth Fleet. Moving on to Manus, Caribou based there while fueling units at sea in support of operations in the Philippines until March 1945. From May through July, she resumed station duty, this time at Mindoro, Manila, and Tacloban, closer to the swiftly moving American advance. Sailing to Ulithi, she carried oil to Leyte, then made a similar voyage to Guam. Caribou served from August to December in the Mariana Islands and at Iwo Jima.
On 2 December 1945, Caribou cleared Guam for Norfolk, Virginia. There she was decommissioned on 3 May 1946, and delivered to the War Shipping Administration for sale 6 May 1946.
USSCaribou (IX-114), an Armadillo-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named...
SS Caribou was a Newfoundland Railway passenger ferry that ran between Port aux Basques, in the Dominion of Newfoundland, and North Sydney, Nova Scotia...
anchored in Saipan harbor on the 5th. The next morning, she fueled from USSCaribou (IX-114). She then shifted to Tanapag Harbor where, between 9 and 11...
USSCaribou, USS Alameda, USS Arethusa, USS Leopard and USS Armadillo *Repair Base Major ship repair base with Large auxiliary floating drydock USS ABSD-4...
landing at Tan Son Nhut AB 4 April 1975, as part of Operation Babylift. C-7 Caribou—19 total, 9 in combat First loss: C-7B 62-4161 (459th Tactical Airlift...
Finland.[citation needed] 31 October Alfa Indonesia PEN Turbo DHC-4T Turbo Caribou crashed during a domestic flight from Timika to Ilaga, Indonesia, into...
Networks. Retrieved 10 September 2020. "USS Bowfin (SS-287) – Patrol 6" Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine. USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park. Retrieved...
She was commissioned in 1926 and was sunk 12 October 1942 by USS Salt Lake City and USS Buchanan at the Battle of Cape Esperance. Furutaka and her sister...
Rai river between Nui Dat and Xuyên Mộc District. 3 August 1967, a C-7 Caribou transport plane was approaching the special forces camp at Đức Phổ when...
Fitzgerald's loss was shoaling or grounding in the Six Fathom Shoal northwest of Caribou Island when the vessel "unknowingly raked a reef" during the time the Whitefish...
C7, C07 or C-7 may refer to: C-7 Caribou, a military transport aircraft AEG C.VII, a World War I German armed reconnaissance aircraft AGO C.VII, a World...
soldiers above". On 1 October 1942, the ship was torpedoed by the submarine USS Grouper while travelling through the South China Sea. The Japanese troops...
Although the area is roamed by the Western Arctic caribou herds—a natural predator of the wolf—the caribou population has been steadily decreasing in number...
American-based club that promoted the Arctic expeditions of Robert Peary Peary caribou, a caribou subspecies in Canada Peary Polar Expedition Medal, authorized by the...
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sheep meat, 45 percent seal meat, 10 percent caribou and 5 percent other meat, with the proportion of caribou and seal meat being significantly higher in...
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