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Name: OEVELGONNE
Type: Tanker
Launched: 06/07/1888
Completed: 10/1888
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 521
Dimensions: 2701grt, 2116nrt, 300.0 x 39.2 x 28.1ft
Engines: T3cyl (21.5, 35 & 57 x 38ins), 200nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
10/1888 GJH Siemers & Co, Hamburg
1891 Deutsche-Amerikanische Petroleum Ges, Hamburg
1891 F Speth & Co, Antwerp; renamed LA HESBAYE
1891 American Petroleum Co, Rotterdam
1914 Freeport & Tampico Fuel Oil Corporation, New York; renamed PANUCO
1919 Sinclair Gulf Corporation, New York
1920 Sinclair Navigation Co, New York
1926 Tankers Corporation, New Orleans
1927 Broken up
Comments: 04/1926: Sold for breaking up
1927: Broken up at Baltimore by Boston Iron & Metals Co


Above photo as OEVELGONNE is courtesy of Auke Visser

Shields Daily News, Monday, 09/07/1888