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ESPIONAGE AND UNITED FRUIT
University of West Florida
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2017
Abstract
The refrigerated fruit cargo vessel, SS. San Pablo, was torpedoed while docked at Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, in 1942 by German U-boat 161. Prior to its sinking, the vessel assisted the United Fruit Company to maintain a near monopoly in the Caribbean and Latin American region. The vessel was later raised and sunk again in 1944 in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola, Forida, as part of a test project headed by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the United States Army Air Force (USAAF). The project, codenamed CAMPBELL/JAVAMAN, tested the use of remote television and radio guided weapons to sink enemy shipping. Prior to this study no archaeological survey of any kind had been conducted on this wreck. Using modern advancements in underwater exploration and archaeology, this vessel allows us a unique opportunity to investigate an early refrigerated fruit cargo carrying vessel and OSS test ship using both 3-D modeling and remote sensing. These techniques provide a unique and easy way to present these vessels to both the archaeological community and the public. Further, they allow us to monitor site degradation of shipwrecks over time and a new way in which to tell their stories.
Details
- Title
- ESPIONAGE AND UNITED FRUIT
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Publisher
- University of West Florida
- Format
- text
- Copyright
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
- Identifiers
- 99380090744906600
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida