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Name: STANDARD
Type: Tanker
Launched: 18/01/1890
Completed: 05/1890
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 554
Dimensions: 2730grt, 1748nrt, 308.7 x 40.2 x 28.3ft
Engines: T3cyl (23, 37 & 60 x 39ins), 225nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
05/1890 Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Ges, Hamburg
1914 Standard Oil Co (New Jersey), New York; renamed MOTANO
30/07/1917 Sank
Comments: 08/1914: Transferred to USA flag at Baton Rouge
30/07/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat UC47, 20 miles SE of Start Point
On a voyage from New York to Portsmouth with a cargo of fuel oil


Above photo as STANDARD copyright of Auke Visser