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Name: CLIO
Type: Tanker
Launched: 04/03/1912
Completed: 04/1912
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 841
Dimensions: 5576grt, 3368nrt, 395.5 x 51.7 x 24.9ft
Engines: Q4cyl (23, 32.5, 47 & 68 x 48ins), 510nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1913: 135271)
History:
04/1912 Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Ges, Hamburg
03/10/1913 Tank Storage & Carriage Co Ltd, London; renamed WAPELLO
1916 Standard Transportation Co Ltd, Hong Kong
15/06/1917 Sank
Comments: Ordered by HE Moss & Co, Liverpool
15/06/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat UC71, 14 miles WSW of Owers LV
On a voyage from Philadelphia to Thameshaven with a cargo of benzine


Above photo as CLIO is copyright of Tyne & Wear Museums

Above photo as CLIO is copyright of Tyne & Wear Museums