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Name: GERMANIC
Type: Tanker
Launched: 22/10/1930
Completed: 01/1931
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 1396
Dimensions: 6320grt, 3912nrt, 420.7 x 57.6 x 32.3ft
Engines: Oil engine, 2SCSA, Doxford type, 4cyl (23.5 x 91.25in), 687nhp
Engines by: Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd, Glasgow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots
Reg Number: 162213
History:
21/01/1931 Sir Walter H Cockerline, Hull
1932 Government of the USSR - Soyuzneft, Tuapse; renamed STANISLAV KASSIOR
1938 Renamed TUAPSE
04/07/1942 Sank
Comments: 04/07/1942: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U129, 90 miles NExN of Cancun
On a voyage from Durban to New Orleans in ballast


Shields Daily News, Saturday, 17/01/1931