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Name: BAKU STANDARD
Type: Tanker
Launched: 20/12/1892
Completed: 02/1893
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 597
Dimensions: 3708grt, 2375nrt, 330.6 x 43.0 x 23.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 40 & 64 x 48ins), 293nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 101968
History:
02/1893 Anapa Co Ltd (A Suart), London
1897 European Petroleum Co Ltd, London
1911 Associated Oil Carriers Ltd (JI Jacobs & Co), Swansea
11/02/1918 Sank
Comments: 11/02/1918: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat UC58, 5 miles SxW of Tod Head
On a voyage from the Clyde to the Firth of Forth with a cargo of crude oil


Above photo courtesy of Richard Cox