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Name: JOYO MARU
Type: Tanker
Launched: 11/08/1908
Completed: 10/1908
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 806
Dimensions: 5135grt, 3149nrt, 385.0 x 50.5 x 30.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (26, 43 & 73 x 48ins), 438nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 127931
History:
1908 Joyo Maru Tank Steamship Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co Ltd), Liverpool
1909 Camillo Tank Steamship Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co Ltd); renamed CAMILLO
1921 Bear Creek Oil & Shipping Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co Ltd), Liverpool
1934 Broken up
Comments: 13/08/1930: Badly damaged by fire and explosion at Hamburg
11/02/1934: Arrived in River Tees for breaking up by South Stockton Shipbreaking Co


Above photo as JOYO MARU is copyright of Tyne & Wear Museums

Lloyd's List, Thursday, 13/08/1908

Yorkshire Post, Thursday, 14/08/1930