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Name: BRILLIANT
Type: Tanker
Launched: 05/07/1890
Completed: 09/1890
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 567
Dimensions: 3189grt, 2011nrt, 318.5 x 42.0 x 29.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (23, 39 & 62 x 48ins), 266nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
09/1890 Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Ges, Geestemunde
1914 Standard Oil Co (New Jersey), New York; renamed LLAMA
31/10/1915 Wrecked
Comments: 07/08/1914: At New York and later transferred to USA flag
31/10/1915: Wrecked on Skae Skerries in the Westray Firth, Orkney
Islands on a voyage from New York to Copenhagen with gas oil