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Name: SCOTTISH STRATH
Type: Tanker
Launched: 29/12/1921
Completed: 07/1922
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Yard: High Walker
Yard Number: 978
Dimensions: 7417grt, 4523nrt, 440.8 x 57.4 x 34.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (27, 46 & 77 x 51ins), 424nhp
Engines by: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 146586
History:
20/06/1922 Tankers Ltd, London
1937 A/S Jensen's Rederi II (JP Jensen), Arendal; renamed MARIT II
13/09/1946 Sank
Comments: 13/09/1946: Sank after breaking in two in a hurricane, 250 miles ENE of Wilmington
On a voyage from Curaçao to New York with a cargo of oil


Above photo as SCOTTISH STRATH is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as MARIT II is courtesy of Jan Tore Knudsen