Espionage And United Fruit: An Analysis of the SS San Pablo Using 3-D Modeling And Photogrametry
Author(s): Stewart Hood
Year: 2017
Summary
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 allowed 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, Fl. 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, was testing the use of remote television and radio guided weapons to sink enemy shipping. 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.
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Espionage And United Fruit: An Analysis of the SS San Pablo Using 3-D Modeling And Photogrametry. Stewart Hood. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435438)
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Keywords
General
OSS
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U-boat
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United Fruit
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
20th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 405