{{Short description|Cargo ship launched 1920}} {{Infobox ship |display_title=ital |section1={{Infobox ship/image |image= |image_caption= }}
|section2={{Infobox ship/career | hide_header= |country=United States |flag={{shipboxflag|United States|1918}} | name= ''Capillo'' | namesake= | owner= *{{nowrap| United States Shipping Board (1920–1921)<br> Pioneer Steamship Company (1921–1922)<br> United States Shipping Board (1922–1941)}}{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 588}} | operator= | registry= | route= | ordered= | awarded= | builder=American International Shipbuilding Corporation, Philadelphia{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 588}} | original_cost= | yard_number=1523{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 588}} | way_number= | laid_down= | launched=26 March 1920 | sponsor= | christened= | completed=1920 | acquired= | commissioned= | recommissioned= | decommissioned= | maiden_voyage= | in_service= | out_of_service= | renamed= | homeport= | identification=*US Official Number 219904<ref name=Lloyds1930>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink= |title=1930-1931 ''Capillo'' |website=Lloyd's Register of Ships|date= 1930|url=https://plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk/shipdata/pdfs/30/30b0212.pdf |accessdate=}}</ref> *code letters: LWHS<ref name=ALMV-Signal>{{cite book|title=Fifty Second Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States - Seagoing vessels, Arranged in Order of Signal Letters| url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015026504491&view=1up&seq=860&skin=2021|page=90 }}</ref> *{{ICS|Lima}}{{ICS|Whiskey}}{{ICS|Hotel}}{{ICS|Sierra}} | nickname= | fate=*Bombed and abandoned, 8 December 1941<br> scuttled, 11 December 1941<br> destroyed 29 December 1941 | notes= }}
|section3={{Infobox ship/characteristics | hide_header = | header_caption = | class = | type = Design 1022 cargo ship | tonnage = 7,500 dwt | displacement = | length = {{convert|390|ft|m|abbr=on}} | beam = {{convert|54|ft|m|abbr=on}} | height = | draught = | draft = {{convert|27|ft|5|in|m|abbr=on}} | depth = | hold_depth = | decks = | deck_clearance = | ramps = | ice_class = | power = Oil-fired steam turbines | propulsion = Single screw | sail_plan = | speed = | range = | endurance = | test_depth = | boats = | capacity = | troops = | complement = | crew = | time_to_activate = | sensors = | EW = | armament = | armour = | armor = | aircraft = | aircraft_facilities = | notes = }} }}
'''SS''' '''''Capillo''''' was a Design 1022 cargo ship built for the United States Shipping Board immediately after World War I.
==History== She was laid down at yard number 1523 at the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania shipyard of the American International Shipbuilding Corporation, one of 110 Design 1022 cargo ships built for the United States Shipping Board.{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 588}} She was completed in 1920 and named the SS ''Capillo''.{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 588}}{{sfn|Marine Review|1921|p=97}} In 1921, she was purchased by the Pioneer Steamship Company, Philadelphia.{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 588}} In 1922, she was returned to the United States Shipping Board.{{sfn|McKellar|p=Part II, 588}}
The Japanese commenced near simultaneous attacks against U.S. forces in the Philippines, Guam, Wake Island, and Pearl Harbor; and against British and allied forces in Singapore and Hong Kong. On 8 December 1941, Japanese planes tasked with attacking shipping in Manila Bay, bombed and set her ablaze; she was then abandoned.<ref name=Cressman>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/TheOfficialChronologyOfTheUSNavyInWorldWarII/page/n121/mode/2up|first=Robert J.|last=Cressman|authorlink=|title=The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II|pages=122 |publisher=Naval Institute Press|date=15 October 2016|isbn=978-1591146384|quote=}}</ref> On 11 December 1941, she was partially scuttled by a U.S. Army demolition party off Corregidor.<ref>Cressman, p.125</ref> On 29 December 1941, Japanese planes from the Takao Kokutai and the 1st Kokutai bombed Corregidor for the first time, setting her hulk ablaze.<ref>Cressman, p.135-136</ref> The Philippine freighter ''Don Jose'' is also set on fire; the presidential yacht BRP ''Banahaw'' (ex-''Casania'') is sunk; and the steamship ''Bicol'' and motor vessel ''Aloha'' are both scuttled.<ref>Cressman, p.135-136</ref> Six members of her crew were sent to Japanese POW camps.<ref>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink= |title=American Merchant Ships Sunk in WWII |website=armed-guard.com|date= |url= https://www.armed-guard.com/sunk.html |accessdate=March 27, 2021}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==Bibliography== *{{cite web |url=http://www.shipscribe.com/mckellar/Contract2.pdf |title=Steel Shipbuilding under the U. S. Shipping Board, 1917-1921, Part II, Contract Steel Ships, p. 588 |last=McKellar |first=Norman L. |work=Steel Shipbuilding under the U. S. Shipping Board, 1917-1921 |publisher=ShipScribe |access-date=1 May 2014 }} *{{cite journal |last=Marine Review |year=1921 |title=1920 Construction Record of U.S. Yards |journal=The Marine Review |volume=51 |issue=February |page=99 |location=New York |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VG8-AQAAMAAJ&q=capillo&pg=PA101 |access-date=27 March 2021 }}
==External links== * [https://www.shipscribe.com/mckellar/pix/1022.html EFC Design 1022: Illustrations]
{{Design 1022 ships|state=collapsed}} {{December 1941 shipwrecks}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Capillo}} Category:1920 ships Category:Ships built in Philadelphia Category:Merchant ships of the United States Category:Maritime incidents in December 1941 Category:Design 1022 ships