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Name: GUT HEIL
Type: Tanker
Launched: 25/08/1888
Completed: 09/1888
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 522
Dimensions: 2691grt, 1715nrt, 309.5 x 40.2 x 28.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (23, 37 & 60 x 39ins), 225nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
09/1888 WA Riedemann & AN Schütte, Geestemünde
1891 Deutsche-Amerikanische Petroleum Ges, Hamburg
1918 JW Thompson Co, New Orleans; renamed SARA THOMPSON
08/1918 Government of USA
08/1934 Alberto Berrette, Manila; renamed SARANGANI
01/1942 Government of Japan; renamed SANRAKU MARU
15/06/1943 Sank
Comments: 28/04/1913: Broke adrift at Baton Rouge & sank after collision with BULYSSES
1917: Wreck sold to JW Thompson
06/12/1917: Refloated and repaired at New Orleans
08/08/1918: Requisitioned by the US Navy; assigned NOTS pennant SP-3148
17/07/1920: Assigned pennant AO-8
08/12/1921: Used as a floating oil storage facility at Cavite
08/1934: Used as floating storage in the Philippines
01/1942: Seized by Japan near Manila; and refitted
15/06/1943: Torpedoed & sunk by US submarine USS TROUT when
she was 90 miles W of Lahad Datu in the Celebes Sea


Above photo as SARA THOMPSON is copyright of US Navy

Above photo as SARA THOMPSON is copyright of US Navy

Above photo as SARA THOMPSON is copyright of US Navy

Above photo as SARA THOMPSON is copyright of US Navy