Often called a Liberty ship, no vessel of this name appears in records either as an original construction name or as a later renaming. Patria, actually a Canadian vessel, was launched in 1944 in Vancouver, British Columbia, originally named Moose Mountain Park. The vessel had also been known as Benoil and Conqueror in a relatively short career. Powered by a triple expansion engine, the vessel carried a direction finder and a fathometer. Lloyd's Register, 1963/64 edition, gives later names for this vessel of Running Eagle and Patapsco River, apparently Patria's final designation.

Patria ran aground near Skunk Point, Santa Rosa Island, on 21 June, 1954, while steaming in dense fog. She was carrying 10,000 tons of coal from Norfolk, Virginia, to Yokohama, Japan. At this time Lloyds had recently assigned the vessel a "100A1" rating. Patria was eventually freed from the shoal. People from the ranch have found coal washed up on the beaches south of Skunk Point in subsequent years. NPS divers recovered two small fragments of coal from this area in 1995. Morris & Lima