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Name: LUCERNA
Type: Tanker
Launched: 26/07/1892
Completed: 09/1892
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 593
Dimensions: 3242grt, 2072nrt, 330.0 x 42.6 x 28.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 40 & 65 x 42ins), 274nhp
Engines by: Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 99437
History:
09/1892 Lucerna Steamship Co Ltd (EA Cohen), Liverpool
1893 Managers became HE Moss & Co, Liverpool
1906 Managers became TW Tamplin & Co
1918 Maritime Investments Ltd (HE Moss & Co), Liverpoool
1930 Ing Luigi Ghirardi fu Emanuele, Genoa; renamed GIUSEPPINA GHIRARDI
10/06/1941 Sank
Comments: 10/06/1941: Torpedoed & sunk by HMS TORBAY, 8 miles off Cape Hellas
On a voyage from the Black Sea to Piraeus