CLYDE IX 144

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

Clyde Class Mobile Station Tanker
Built 1918 by Sir J. Laing & Sons, Ld. Sunderland, England


1. WAR PUNDIT (Commercial Service)
Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1920 lists the owner as "Scottish American Oil & Transport Co. Ld."
with a prior owner "The Shipping Controller (Stephens, Sutton, & Stephens, Mgrs.)" crossed out


2. SCOTTISH BARD (Commercial Service)
Acquired by Tankers Ltd., London, in 1920, and renamed


3. BACININ PADRE (Commercial Service)
Acquired by "Corrado" Soc Anon di Navigazione, Genoa, Italy, in 1930, and renamed


4. MANZANARES (Commercial Service)
Laid up at Puerto Cortes June 1940
Seized by the government of Venezuela in 1941


5. SWIVEL (Commercial Service)
Acquired by the War Shipping Administration in 1941, managed by Standard Oil Co. of N.J. Original name restored.
Acquired by the U.S. Navy on February 9, 1944


6. USS ST. MARY IX-144
Commissioned Miscellaneous Unclassified (IX) March 14 1944


7. USS CLYDE IX-144
Renamed June 10 1944
Damaged by a collision at New Guinea on 11 November 1944, retained for static storage
Decommissioned April 9 1945 and considered a "constructive total loss"


8. CLYDE IX-144
   Placed In Service April 9 1945 "as dead storage"
   Laid up at Manus Island in November 1945 then towed to Subic Bay December 11-24, 1945
   Transferred to War Shipping Administration February 7 1946
   Struck from Naval Register May 5 1946
   
   
9. SWIVEL (Commercial Service)
Prior name restored and appears in Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1947

Returned to Italian Government in 1948 and reportedly scrapped that year

 

Conflicting History Data

NavSource and Naval History and Heritage Command both show the builder as "Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Works, Newcastle, England".
NavSource further states that the original name was SWIVEL.

However, the Shipscribe page on ex-Italian tankers says the ship was "built as WAR PUNDIT".

Lloyd's Registry of Shipping 1920 has no entry for SWIVEL but does have an entry for WAR PUNDIT. It lists the builder as "Sir J. Laing & Sons, Ld. Sunderland, England".
Later editions of Lloyd's follow the naming history: WAR PUNDIT --> SCOTTISH BARD --> BACICIN PADRE --> SWIVEL
I did not find an entry in Lloyd's for MANZANARES but that name was only used briefly and during the early years of WWII.

The best history I found was the Sunderlandship.com page for WAR PUNDIT which lists the naming history as:
"1920 SCOTTISH BARD - 1930 BACICIN PADRE - 1941 MANZANARES - 1942 SWIVEL - 1944 ST. MARY - 1944 CLYDE - 1946 SWIVEL"

 

Naval Covers

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Postmarks

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Other Information

CLYDE

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
World War II Victory Medal

NAMESAKE - Villages in New York and Ohio

 

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