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Name: M O B 7
Type: Tanker
Launched: 1945
Completed: 25/08/1945
Builder: Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 20
Dimensions: 180dwt, 145grt, 48nrt, 104.0 x 19.7 x 7.2ft
Engines: C2cyl (10 & 20 x 15ins)
Engines by: White’s Marine Engine Co Ltd, Hebburn
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 187698
History:
25/08/1945 Royal Army Service Corps
20/12/1945 War Office
20/02/1957 Pound’s Shipowners & Shipbreakers Ltd, Portsmouth
15/04/1957 FT Everard & Sons Ltd, London; renamed TANKITY
10/1967 Northern Slipways Ltd, Dublin
05/1968 Broken up
Comments: Ordered by the Admiralty & built as a Military Oil Barge hence MOB
18/12/1943: Order transferred to Royal Army Service Corps
25/08/1945: Allocated to Stores Dept, Chatham Naval Yard
20/12/1945: Transferred to War Office
10/1967: Sold to Northern Slipways Ltd, Dublin for breaking up
05/1968: Broken up at Dalmuir by W Arnott Young Ltd


M O B 7 just makes an appearance in this photo courtesy of Philip Simons

Above photo as TANKITY copyright of the World Ship Society

Above photo as TANKITY courtesy of Richard Cox