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Coast Farmer
''Coast Farmer'', gaining the name in 1937 and previously bearing the names ''Point Arena'' (1928) and ''Riverside Bridge'' (1920), was a U.S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1023 vessel ordered under the name ''Minnewawa'' and built as hull #103 by Submarine Boat, Newark New Jersey in 1920 ''Coast Farmer'' is noted as being a part of the Pensacola Convoy landing the supplies and troops intended for the Philippines in Darwin, Australia after being diverted on the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The ship became even more notable being the first of only three ships successfully running the Japanese blockade into the Philippines; leaving Brisbane February〔References, including cited official histories, have differing days of departure in February.〕 1942.〔Charles Dana Gibson notes the food supplies, transshipped from Mindanao aboard two Filipino coasters, with only the ''Elcano'' making Corregidor, were largely spoiled and "canned goods had lost their labels rendering their contents a mystery" to the recipients.〕 ''Coast Farmer'' was torpedoed and sunk off Jervis Bay, New South Wales on July 20, 1942.
==Commercial to World War II Service==
The Gulf Pacific Mail Line operated the ship as ''Point Arena'' from 1928 to 1937.〔Lloyd's registers for those years shows "Gulf Pacific Mail Line" and "Swayne & Hoyt, Ltd., the operator of GPML ships.〕 The ship was acquired and operated as ''Coast Farmer'' by the Coastwise Line, a coastal line associated with Coastwise (Pacific Far East) Lines, until taken for war time service by the War Shipping Administration on 22 December 1941, the date the Pensacola Convoy reached Brisbane Australia.〔The Vessel Data Card indicates with TCA a Transportation Corps agreement, thus the effective date upon which the ship entered the Southwest Pacific Area's local fleet.〕
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