SS ''Mary'' was a Design 1022 cargo ship built for the

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History

She was laid down at

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1535 at the

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shipyard of the

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, one of 110 Design 1022 cargo ships built for the

. She was completed in 1920 and named ''Cody''. In 1930, she was purchased by Tampa Interocean Steamship Company. In 1939, she was purchased by Bull-Insular Steamship Company (A.H. Bull & Co) and renamed SS ''Mary''. On February 7, 1942, she collided with the U.S. freighter SS ''Palimol'' at and made her way to

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for repairs. On March 3, 1942, she was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine ''U-129'', 250 miles northeast of

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(). Survivors were picked up by the freighter SS ''Alcoa Scout''.Cressman, p.168

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