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}}{{Infobox Ship Career | Hide header= | Ship flag= | Ship name=SS Miraflores | Ship owner=- Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1921-1925)
- Miraflores Steamship Co Ltd (Atlantic Fruit & Sugar Co), Kingston, Jamaica (1925-1931)
- Standard Fruit and Steamship Company (1931-1932)
- Marymira Company Ltd, Kingston (1932-1937)
- Llanrumney Ltd, Kingston (1938-1942)
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}} | SS Miraflores was a freighter lost on 19 February 1942. The ship left New Orleans on 6 February 1942 with a crew of 34 and made an intermediate stop in Haiti before sailing for New York on 14 February 1942.[1]Miraflores was owned by the Standard Fruit and Steamship Company.[2]She had a gross tonnage of 2,158 and was 270 feet long.[3] She was built in England in 1921 and was engaged in transporting bananas between Central America and New Orleans.[4] Miraflores was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean north east of Delaware Capes, United States by U-432 with the loss of all 34 crew.[5] The ship was later discovered and identified in 2007. References 1. ^Ludington Daily News, Ludington, Michigan, June 16, 1942, "Six Ships are Sunk", page 1
2. ^Berkeley Daily Gazette, Berkeley, California, 15 June 1942, page 2, " New Ship Mystery Rivals Case of Cyclops"
3. ^Gettysburg Times, Gettysburg, Pa., 16 June 1942, page 6, "Atlantic Ship Toll Now at 271"
4. ^The Daily Independent, Murphysboro, Illinois, "Another Cyclops Mystery May Be in The Making", page 5
5. ^"Miraflores". Uboat. Retrieved 21 January 2017
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