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Official Number: 213095
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Builder: J Readhead & Sons, South Shields
Launched: 8 October 1907
Pennant No: Y.7.208
Into Service: WW1
Out of service: WW1
Fate: Torpedoed and sunk 1942
Items of historic interest involving this ship:
Background Data: One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA
Career Data:
8 October 1907 launched by J Readhead & Sons, South Shields as Yard Nr: 404 named HARPORT by J & C Harrison Ltd., London
November 1907 completed
1912 purchased by Deutsche-Amerikanische Petroleum Ges, Hamburg and converted into a tanker – name unchanged
1914 purchased by Standard Oil Co (New Jersey), Bayonne and renamed DAYTON
WW1 acquired for Admiralty service as an oiler – name unchanged
1923 manger now J M Botts, New York(?)
1925 purchased by Olympic Steamship Co Inc., Seattle and renamed OLYMPIC
1940 purchased by Petroleum Heat & Power Co, Los Angeles – name unchanged
1941 purchased by Cia International de Vapores S A & Cia General de Bapores S A, Panama – name unchanged
22 January 1942 torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U130 in position 36.01N 75.30W while on passage from Curacao to Baltimore carrying a cargo of crude oil with the loss of her entire crew