Name: | ANGLO-SWEDE |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 18/10/1929 |
Completed: | 03/1930 |
Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co (Shipbuilders) Ltd |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 1048 |
Dimensions: | 9033grt, 4490nrt, 461.1 x 59.9 x 33.8ft |
Engines: | Oil engine, 2SCSA, 7cyl (26.5 x 49.5ins), 848nhp |
Engines by: | Atlas Diesel Company, Stockholm |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a; (1940: 168187) |
History: | |
03/1930 | Rederi A/B Tanker (R Wylandt), Stockholm |
1932 | A/S D/S Svendborg og A/S D/A af 1912 (AP Møller), Fredericia |
1932 | Renamed ANGLO MAERSK |
1940 | Ministry of War Transport (Houlder Bros & Co Ltd), London |
27/10/1942 | Sank |
Comments: | 26/10/1942: Torpedoed & damaged by U-Boat U509, 410 miles W of Las Palmas |
On a voyage from Pointe Noire and Freetown to the Clyde in ballast | |
27/10/1942: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U604, 250 miles further east |
Above photo as ANGLO MAERSK is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as ANGLO MAERSK is courtesy of Photoship