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Name: SAN ISIDORO
Type: Tanker
Launched: 12/12/1913
Completed: 03/1914
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 852
Dimensions: 9718grt, 5964nrt, 530.2 x 66.6 x 33.4ft
Engines: Q4cyl (28.5, 41, 58 & 84 x 54ins), 790nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 136646
History:
03/03/1914 Eagle Oil Transport Co Ltd, London
1914 French Navy; renamed DORDOGNE
1915 Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd (as Crown Nominees)
1915 Renamed SILVERLIP
1919 French Navy; renamed DORDOGNE
18/06/1940 Scuttled
Comments: 1915: Loaned to UK by the French Government
18/06/1940: Scuttled in Brest Roads.


Above photo as SAN ISIDORO is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as DORDOGNE is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as DORDOGNE is courtesy of Photoship

Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Saturday, 13/12/1913