SS Chicago

[steph h]

I'm looking to see if there was a Merchant boat called Chicago during ww2.

My grandfather apparently sailed on her, but I cant find anything when I do a google search.

Thanks in advance.

[robpage]

[robpage]

CGT The French Line SS Chicago But seems to have been decommissioned 1928 , and I cannot find any other History about it

[Captain Kong]

Chicago (1) 1907 1907 - 1929 renamed Guadeloupe (3), 1936 scrapped. 11,127
Chicago (2) 1959 1976 sold to Greece renamed Eurospirit.
.
. All I can find on Chicago
Brian

[steph h]

Thanks Rob.

I'll have to try and locate some records from somewhere.

[robpage]

I have tried City of Chicago ,MV Chicago , SS Chicago , Chicago City , Chicago Maru , and a few other combinations but can find nothing hat fits the dates

[Doc Vernon]

More details on the Capt one!
Cheers
Single Ship Report for "5603062"

IDNo:	5603062	Year:	1908
Name:	CHICAGO	Keel:
Type:	Passenger/cargo	Launch Date:	5.11.07
Flag:	FRA	Date of completion:	5.08

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Tons:	10471	Link:	1348
DWT:		Yard No:	J (50)
Length overall:		Ship Design:
LPP:	155.0	Country of build:	FRA
Beam:	17.6	Builder:	St Nazaire (Penhoet)
Material of build:		Location of yard:	St Nazaire
Number of screws/Mchy/ Speed(kn):	2T-15

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Naval or paramilitary marking :
A:	*
End:	1937

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Subsequent History:

28 GUADELOUPE

Could possibly be this one?


Single Ship Report for "1139314"

IDNo:	1139314	Year:	1917
Name:	CHICAGO	Keel:
Type:	Cargo ship	Launch Date:	24.2.17
Flag:	GBR	Date of completion:	5.17

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Tons:	7709	Link:	1628
DWT:		Yard No:	616
Length overall:		Ship Design:
LPP:	135.9	Country of build:	GBR
Beam:	17.5	Builder:	Earle's SB & E Co
Material of build:		Location of yard:	Hull
Number of screws/Mchy/ Speed(kn):	1T-

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Naval or paramilitary marking :
A:	*
End:	1918

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Subsequent History:

Disposal Data:

sm/t (UB-107) 4nm NE Flamborough Head 8.7.18 (3*) [North Shields-Gibraltar, coal]


http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/c...accessmethod=0

[robpage]

I am confused with te disposal data , a sI believe that

SM UB-107 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 23 September 1913 and launched on 21 July 1917. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 16 February 1918 as SM UB-107.[Note 1] The submarine sank 11 ships in 4 patrols.
The first recorded fate of UB-107 was noted as sunk by depth charge on July 27, 1918 by the Royal Navy trawler Calvis and HMY Vanessa II at position 57°23′N 00°24′W. It has since been argued that the UB-107 was probably not present for the attack by Calvis and Vanessa II as it was the only U-boat that could have been responsible for the sinking of steamers Chloris and John Rettig two and a half hours later at position 53°52′N 00°10′E.
In 1985 divers discovered the wreck of UB-107 one mile north of Flamborough Head at position 54°08′N 00°00′W entangled with another wreck, the SS Malvina, a British steamer torpedoed and sunk on 3 August 1918 by UB-104. UB-107 was identified by the markings on her propellers.[2][3] It is suggested that either UB-107 suffered an accident of some sort or was lost on a British mine between July 28 and August 3, 1918 leaving all hands lost (38 dead).[4]

[Gulliver]

Further to previous respondents I too have researched CHICAGO + *wildcard combinations and found broadly similar results.

Another possibility is to assume a misinterpretation/inaccurate assumption of the name 'Chicago'-for example on that basis the name CHICACA was spewed forth to me as a T2 tanker launched /completed at Mobile,Alabama 4-5/1945, i.e. almost at the end of the war. She had the Official No.247681 and belonged to Overseas Tankship Corp,Panama (U.S. owner)
She later became the CALTEX SAIGON.

Regards
Gulliver

[happy daze john in oz]

Those old post cards of some ships are the best you can get.