Name: | PINNA |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 08/12/1900 |
Completed: | 01/03/1901 |
Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 705 |
Dimensions: | 6205grt, 3659nrt, 436.9 x 52.0 x 32.3ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (27.5, 46 & 77 x 48ins), 511nhp |
Engines by: | North Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 9.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 112811 |
History: | |
14/02/1901 | Shell Transport & Trading Co Ltd, London |
1907 | Petroleum Steamship Co Ltd, London |
1917 | Renamed BRITISH EARL |
1921 | British Tanker Co Ltd, London |
1929 | Tankschiff Reederei Julius Schindler, Hamburg; renamed TANKSCHINDLER |
1931 | Cia Italiana Marittima, Venice; renamed TROTTIERA |
1942 | Government of the United States, Panama City; renamed ORISSA |
1944 | US Navy; renamed MALVERN |
1945 | US Maritime Commission, Panama City; renamed ORISSA |
03/1948 | Broken up |
Comments: | 31/03/1941:Scuttled at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela |
Subsequently raised by the US Government | |
Armed with 1 x 4.0ins, 1 x 3.0ins & 8 x 1 x 20mm AA guns | |
03/1948: Broken up at Shanghai by Asia Development Corp |
Above photo as PINNA courtesy of Richard Cox
Above photo as BRITISH EARL courtesy of John Crossland
Shields Daily Gazette, Wednesday, 20/02/1901