CAPE FEAR (s/v) Yard.no: 1560
Build: 1919
2.795 grt., 3.590 dwt
Dim: 86,00 x 14,02 x 8,61 m.
Engine: T. 3-cyl., 1.520 ihp, Worthington Pump & Mchy. Corp., Buffalo, N.Y., designed speed 10½ knots
Owners:
1919: United States Shipping Board, (Emergency Fleet Corp.), Jacksonville, U.S.A.
1920.10.29. Sunk in Narragansett Bay after collision with CITY OF ATLANTA.

OLD NORTH STATE (s/v) Yard.no: MA2
Build: 1920. (Not Completed)
3.500 grt
Dim: 86,00 x 14,02 x 8,61 m.
Engine: T. 3-cyl., 1.520 ihp, Worthington Pump & Mchy. Corp., Buffalo, N.Y., designed speed 10½ knots
Owners:
1919: United States Shipping Board, Jacksonville, U.S.A.
1923: Renamed PRESIDENT VAN BUREN.
1940: Renamed PRESIDENT FILLMORE.
1944: Renamed MARIGOLD.
1946: Renamed PRESIDENT FILLMORE.
1948: Broken up in Oakland.

SAPONA (s/v) (Off.no.: 219402) Lch.as LONE STAR.
Build: 1919
2.795 grt, 1.993 nrt., 3.590 dwt
Dim: 86,00 x 14,02 x 8,61 m.
Engine: T. 3-cyl., 1.520 ihp, designed speed 10½ knots
Owners:
1919: United States Shipping Board, Jacksonville, U.S.A.
1924.04. Dismantled at Miami Beach and sold to a Bahamian wich moored her just offshore Bimini. He used the vessel to store prohibited whiskey and rum runners would cruise to and from Florida picking up their illegal cargo.
1926. SAPONA was broken in two in a severe hurricane after being bounced off the sea bed by massive waves.
During World War II, the SAPONA was utilized once again, this time as a target for bombing practice. Air Force and Navy planes flew from Florida to Bimini to drop bombs on her. The wreck is still there.
(Thanks to Ian Peterson for the last part of her history.)

Last update: 2007.06.26.