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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| WAR SINGER |
142457 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1918 |
27/05/1918 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Tanker Oil
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Charles Connell & Company, Glasgow |
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387 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 5083 grt / 3058 nrt / |
400.8 ft |
52.3 ft |
28.5 ft |
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| Engine builder |
David Rowan & Co., Glasgow |
| Engine detail |
| 1-screw. T3Cyl. (27, 44 & 77 - 48)in. |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| The Shipping Controller - Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. Ltd., London |
London |
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| Other names |
| 1921 AKERA - 1939 MEDICEO |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1919 Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. Ltd., London
1927 D/S A/S Akera - J. W. Prebensen, Risor
1932 Skibs A/S Garm - Prebensen & Blakstad, Risor
1939 Ditta Marino Querci, Genoa
09/1943 seized by German forces
1943 Mittelmeer Reederei GmbH |
| Vessel history |
Fitted with cylindrical tanks
1939 converted to dry cargo vessel |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1945 |
Bombed 31/01/1945 |
| Disposal Detail |
Bombed and sunk by British aircraft in Foce del Tagliamento on passage Venice for Trieste.
(Italian list has her as mined) |
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Akera
Image courtesy of : Old Ship Picture Galleries
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