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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| LUCERIC |
129524 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1910 |
06/09/1919 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Cargo
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Russell & Co, Port Glasgow |
Kingston Yard |
606 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 6526 grt / 4100 nrt / |
460.0 ft |
57.0 ft |
28.9 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Rankin & Blackmore, Greenock |
| Engine detail |
| T3cyl (28.5,47&78x54ins), 690nhp, 1 screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Bank Line Ltd - A. Weir & Co., Glasgow |
Glasgow |
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| Other names |
| 1916 VALACIA - 1931 ERNANI - 1940 SLEIPNER II |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1916 Cunard Steam-Ship Co. Ltd., Liverpool
1931 Industrie Navali S.A., Genoa
1938 Giovanni Gavarone fu Giovanni, Genoa
06/1940 Deutsches Reich
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| Vessel history |
| Seized by Germany at Las Palmas in 06/1940 |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1941 |
Torpedoed 28/06/1941 |
| Disposal Detail |
Mistakenly torpedoed by the German submarine U.103 450 miles off Las Palmas in 27.52N - 26.17W while she was camouflaged as Dutch ENGGANO trying to break Allied blockade of Bordeaux.
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Valacia
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