Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation


Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation is a United States corporation that ran a shipbreaking operation. In the 1960s and 1970s it purchased from the United States Maritime Administration many surplus U.S. Navy and U.S. Merchant Marine ships from World War II for scrapping.
The company scrapped, an escort carrier, the USS Kenneth Whiting, and the.
The company purchased the submarine on 29 July 1971 for scrapping.