27 May 1930 launched by Palmers’ Co Ltd, Jarrow as Yard Nr 998 named LUCERNA for Lumina SS Co Ltd (H.E. Moss & Co, Managers) Liverpool
August 1930 completed
1939 – 1945 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an oiler, name unchanged and gave good service on the Russian
Convoys as an Escort Oiler.
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Official Number: 162323
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Builder: Palmers’ Co Ltd, Jarrow
Launched: 27 May 1930
Into Service: 1939
Out of service: 1945
Fate: 1959 scrapped
Items of historic interest involving this ship: –
Background Data: One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW2 to augment the ships of the RFA
Career Data:
27 May 1930 launched by Palmers’ Co Ltd, Jarrow as Yard Nr 998 named LUCERNA for Lumina SS Co Ltd (H.E. Moss & Co, Managers) Liverpool
August 1930 completed
1939 – 1945 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an oiler, name unchanged and gave good service on the Russian
Convoys as an Escort Oiler
27 July 1940 sailed Swansea to Milford Haven and then Abadan in convoy OB191
2 August 1940 while on passage in the North Atlantic in convoy OB 191was hit amidships by one
G7e torpedo from German submarine U99. Initially stopped and was later attacked by the U-boat
with gunfire, but managed to escape and reached Greenock on 8 August. She was repaired at
Liverpool and returned to service in May 1941. One crew member was killed and has no known
grave but the sea. He is remembered with pride on the Tower Hill Memorial but he has no entry in
the CWGC Debt of Honour registry
Image courtsey of Brian Watson
1950 purchased by Hansa Tank Reederei GmbH ( F & W Joch, Managers) Germany and renamed WINNETOU
21 October 1957 in collision with motor ship Plan
27 July 1958 laid up at Hamburg
14 August 1959 arrived Bremen for demolition by Eckhardt & Co GmbH
