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Name: KURA
Type: Tanker
Launched: 03/08/1889
Completed: 08/1889
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 555
Dimensions: 2391grt, 1532nrt, 294.0 x 37.7 x 20.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (22.5, 36.5 & 60 x 39ins), 243nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 96153
History:
08/1889 Kura Steam Ship Co Ltd (Stephens & Mawson), Newcastle
1901 Managers became Stephens, Sutton & Stephens
1918 Managers became British Tanker Co Ltd
1918 Petroleum Steamship Co Ltd, London
1922 British Tanker Co Ltd, London
1924 Soc Armatrice Italiana, Genoa; renamed PERSIANO
1939 Ditta GM Barbagelata, Genoa
12/04/1941 Sank
Comments: 12/04/1941: Sank after being torpedoed by submarine HMS TETRARCH about
40 miles north of Tripoli on a voyage from Palermo to Tripoli with a cargo of petrol
Sunk by an escort later in the day