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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| VITRUVIA |
148906 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1926 |
15/04/1926 |
05/1926 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Tanker Oil
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Robert Duncan & Co, Port Glasgow |
East Yard |
370 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 4870 grt / 2955 nrt / |
375.1 ft |
51.7 ft |
29.0 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Rankin & Blackmore, Greenock |
| Engine detail |
| 1-screw. T3cyl (25.5,42 & 70 - 48)in 180lb 470NHP. |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Voreda S.S. Co. Ltd . - Gow, Harrison & Co., Glasgow |
Glasgow |
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| Other names |
| 1938 MARYAD - 1939 PETERJO - 1939 BEAUCE - 1940 PROSERPINA |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1938 Pallas Oil & Trading Co. Ltd. - D. Margilies, London
1939 J. P. Eastwick, Antwerp
1939 French Government - Cie. Auxiliaire de Nav., Marseille
1940 seized by Italian Government - Adriatica S.A. de Navigazione, Venice |
| Vessel history |
06/1938 damaged by air attack
1942 attacked by HMS TRAVELLER when passing Antikithera. |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1942 |
Bombed 26/10/1942 |
| Disposal Detail |
| 26/10/1942 in convoy Taranto/Tobruk attacked by bombers and Beaufort torpedo aircraft of the 47 RAF Squadron from Malta and sunk about 30 miles, 320 deg. from Tobruk. |
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