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Name: DUFFIELD
Type: Tanker
Launched: 09/12/1893
Completed: 01/1894
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 101
Dimensions: 3767grt, 2426nrt, 340.0 x 44.2 x 22.1ft
Engines: T3cyl (25.5, 41 & 68 x 48ins), 349nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 101848
History:
01/1894 Northern Petroleum Tank Steamship Co Ltd (Hunting & Son), Newcastle
1901 Anglo-American Oil Co Ltd, London; renamed APPALACHEE
1926 Gerolamo Massabo, Genoa; renamed CLIZIA
1927 Ape Soc Anon Petroliere (G Massabo), Genoa
09/1943 Deutsches Reich, Germany
25/08/1944 Sank
Comments: 06/1940: At Gijon, later moved to Bordeaux
09/1943: Seized by Germany at Bordeaux
25/08/1944: Scuttled in the River Gironde


Above photo as APPALACHEE is courtesy of Russell Priest

Above: The wreck of CLYZIA. Photo taken by Nicolas Vogt on 15/03/2015