Name: | WAR BEGUM |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 05/06/1919 |
Completed: | 08/1919 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 890 |
Dimensions: | 5578grt, 3428nrt, 400.0 x 52.3 x 28.4ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (27, 44 & 73 x 48ins), 517nhp |
Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 143358 |
History: | |
24/07/1919 | The Shipping Controller (British Tanker Co Ltd), London |
1920 | Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd, London |
1921 | Renamed CONUS |
1927 | D/S A/S Jølund (S Herlofson & Co A/S), Moss; renamed HERBORG |
1928 | Tonnevolds Rederi A/S (Th O Tønnevold & Olaf Tønnevold), Grimstad |
1928 | Renamed THELMA |
1937 | Wheelock & Co Ltd, Singapore; renamed WAR BEGUM |
1938 | Kitagawa Sangyo Kaiun KK, Osaka; renamed HOKKI MARU |
27/09/1944 | Sank |
Comments: | 27/09/1944: Torpedoed & sunk by submarine USS LAPON, 300 miles NW of Manila |
Above photo as THELMA is courtesy of Kees Helder
Above photo as THELMA is courtesy of Kees Helder