| Name: | AGNITA |
| Type: | LPG Tanker |
| Launched: | 20/11/1930 |
| Completed: | 03/1931 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 578 |
| Dimensions: | 3561grt, 1977nrt, 305.4 x 50.5 x 26.3ft |
| Engines: | Oil engine, 4SCSA, 8cyl (630 x 1100mm), 476nhp |
| Engines by: | Werkspoor NV, Amsterdam |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | n/a; (1939: 167323) |
| History: | |
| 03/1931 | NV Petroleum Mij "La Corona", The Hague |
| 26/08/1939 | Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd, London |
| 22/03/1941 | Sank |
| Comments: | She was the world's first purpose-built gas carrier |
| Designed to carry three different types of cargo - gas oil, sulphuric acid & LPG | |
| Built with 12 large cylindrical pressure vessel tanks made from 24 mm thick boiler plate, by the engine works at St Peter's | |
| The top of the hemispherical end of each tank protruded 6ft above the upper deck | |
| 22/03/1941: Scuttled by German raider KORMORAN, 900 miles WxS of Monrovia | |
| On a voyage from Freetown to Caripito in ballast |
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