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Name: SAN HILARIO
Type: Tanker
Launched: 27/11/1913
Completed: 12/1913
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 828
Dimensions: 10157grt, 6454nrt, 530.0 x 66.5 x 33.5ft
Engines: Q4cyl (28.5, 41, 58 & 84 x 54ins), 793nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 135306
History:
23/12/1913 Eagle Oil Transport Co Ltd, London
20/04/1917 Sank
Comments: 20/04/1917: Captured, torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U43, 270 miles WxN of Fastnet
On a voyage from Puerto Mexico to Queenstown with a cargo of petrol


Above photo as SAN HILARIO is courtesy of Photoship

Newcastle Evening Chronicle, Thursday, 27/11/1913