Name: | HALIOTIS |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 22/02/1898 |
Completed: | 09/1898 |
Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 678 |
Dimensions: | 1659grt, 1046nrt, 242.0 x 40.2 x 17.3ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (30 & 63 x 39ins), 217nhp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 9.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 109966 |
History: | |
09/1898 | Shell Transport & Trading Co Ltd (M Samuel & Co), London |
1901 | Nederlandsche-Indische Industrie & Handel Mij, Balikpapan |
1904 | Nederlandsche-Indische Tankstoomboot Mij, Batavia |
1910 | Managers became Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd |
1923 | Nafta Soc Italiana pel Petrolio ed Affini, Genoa; renamed NAFTA |
1925 | Renamed AUREOLA |
1940 | Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli, Genoa; renamed ZEILA |
23/03/1943 | Sank |
Comments: | Designed to distribute fuel oil from Borneo to Far Eastern ports |
1922: Reported hulked but sold for further trading | |
23/03/1943: Torpedoed & sunk by HMS UNISON, 4 miles from Cape Spartivento | |
On a voyage from Crotone to Messina |
Above photo as HALIOTIS is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as AUREOLA is courtesy of the Flor Van Otterdyk collection
Lloyd's List, Thursday, 08/09/1898