Official Number:                       157868

Pennant No:                           

Laid down:

Builder:                                   Howaldtswerke A.G, Kiel

Launched:                               1 April 1936

Into Service:                            1939

Out of service:                         3 August 1942

Fate:                                      torpedoed and sunk 3 August 1942

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:

1 April 1936 launched by Howaldtswerke A.G, Kiel as Yard Nr: 746 named Tricula for Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd., London

August 1936 completed

1939 requisition for Admiralty service as an Oiler – name unchanged

3 August 1942 torpedoed and sunk by German Submarine U 108 in the Atlantic 250 miles NE of Trinidad in position 11.35N 56.51W while on an independent passage from Curacao and Trinidad to Cape Town carrying a cargo of 8,000 tons of fuel oil with the loss of 49 lives. 10 survivors were rescued by the Argentinian ship Rio San Juan and landed at Fernando, Cuba