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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| ATHELKNIGHT |
161143 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1930 |
30/12/1930 |
03/1930 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Tanker Oil
| Steel Motor Vessel |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Robert Duncan & Co, Port Glasgow |
East Yard |
394 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 8940 grt / 5224 nrt / |
475.0 ft |
63.3 ft |
35.0 ft |
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| Engine builder |
J G Kincaid & Co. Ltd., Greenock |
| Engine detail |
| Oil Engine 2x6Cyl. 709nhp Machinery aft. |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| United Molasses Co. Ltd., Liverpool |
Liverpool |
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| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
| 1940 Athel Line Ltd., Liverpool |
| Vessel history |
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| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1942 |
Torpedoed 27/05/1942 |
| Disposal Detail |
Torpedoed and shelled by U.172 in 27.50N - 46.00W on passage Barry for Curacao in ballast and sank on the following day. U-Boat was on her first patrol from Lorient into the North Atlantic.
ATHELKNIGHT was the first of 27 sinkings until U-172 was destroyed in December 1943. |
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Athelknight
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