Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation
Ship breaking operation
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Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation was a United States corporation that ran a shipbreaking operation. In the 1960s and 1970s, it purchased many surplus U.S. Navy and U.S. Merchant Marine ships from World War II from the United States Maritime Administration for scrapping.
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The company scrapped USS Siboney,[1] an escort carrier; the seaplane tender USS Kenneth Whiting; and the aircraft carriers USS Antietam and USS Wasp.
The company purchased the submarine USS Sablefish (SS-303) on 29 July 1971 for scrapping.
