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USS ''Saturn'' (AK-49) was a German cargo ship, built in 1939 as ES ''Arauca''. ("ES" stands for ''"Electroschiff"'', meaning (ドイツ語:electric ship).) In 1941 before the US entered World War II, US authorities seized her and started converting her into a United States Navy stores ship. She was the sole ship of the US Navy's ''Saturn'' class. She was laid up in 1946 and scrapped in 1972. ''Arauca'' was built for trade between Germany and the Caribbean, and was named accordingly. Arauca is a border town in eastern Colombia on the frontier with Venezuela. ==ES ''Arauca''== ''Arauca'' was one of three sister ships that Bremer Vulkan of Bremen-Vegesack, Germany built in 1939 for Hamburg Amerikanische Paketfahrt AG (HAPAG).〔 ''Arauca'' had two oil-fired high pressure LaMont boilers and turbo-electric transmission.〔 Her boilers fed two AEG turbo generators, which fed current to an AEG electric propulsion motor on her single propeller shaft.〔〔 In August 1939 ''Arauca'' left Germany on her maiden voyage, carrying general cargo to Mexico.〔 Technological problems dogged the voyage, including the superheater of one of her boilers being burnt out.〔 By the time she had reached port in Vera Cruz and completed discharging her cargo it was the beginning of September and Germany had invaded Poland.〔 German merchant ships now risked being seized or sunk by the Royal Navy, so ''Arauca'' remained in port for the next two and a half months. In December ''Arauca'' tried to make for Germany, but off the coast of Florida the light cruiser fired across her bow, so on 19 December she put into Port Everglades.〔〔 ''Orion'' had opened fire in US territorial waters, which prompted a US protest to the UK Foreign Office.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Saturn (AK-49)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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