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Name: AUGUST BELMONT
Type: Cargo Ship (later tanker)
Launched: 24/04/1902
Completed: 05/1902
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 275
Dimensions: 4640grt, 2967nrt, 372.6 x 50.0 x 27.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (26, 43 & 72 x 48ins), 359nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 115832
History:
05/1902 Pensacola Trading Co Ltd (Watts, Watts & Co), London
1919 Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd, London
1920 Renamed ANCULA
1920 Velefa Steamship Co Ltd (Runciman (London) Ltd), London
1923 Louis A Millis, London
04/1924 Broken up
Comments: 05/1916: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as a collier
08/1916: Purchased by the Admiralty & converted into a tanker
The conversion involved the insertion of cylindrical tanks in her holds
04/1924: Broken up on the Tyne, arrived 30/01/1924


Above photo as AUGUST BELMONT courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as AUGUST BELMONT courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as AUGUST BELMONT courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as AUGUST BELMONT courtesy of Photoship

Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 25/04/1902