USS Mizar ( AF-12 ) requisitioned from United Fruit Company

The USS Mizar ( AF-12 ) was a Mizar-class refrigerator ship and passenger liner ( Cruise ship ) taken over by the U. S. Maritime Commission in the summer of 1941 under the authority of Public Law 101, 77th Congress and Executive Order 8771, 6 June 1941.

The USS Mizar normally carried up to 95 cruise ship passengers and a crew to ports in Central America and then would return to the United States with passengers and a cargo of refrigerated bananas and miscellaneous cargo.

The USS Mizar was part of United Fruit Company's Great White Fleet and originally named SS Quiriqua.

The SS Quiriqua was converted to the USS Mizar for Naval service by the addition of one single 5 "/ 38 caliber gun, four 3 "/ 50 caliber guns for anti-aircraft ( AA ) and anti submarine use and up to eight Oerlikon 20 mm cannon AA guns at Brewer's Drydock Co., Staten Island, N. Y.

The USS Mizar was commissioned as a naval ship 14 June 1941 with CDR.

The USS Mizar was manned by a crew of Merchant mariners and a number of United States Navy Armed Guard sailors assigned to man the guns on the ship.

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