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Name: CREOLE BUENO
Type: Tanker
Launched: 30/10/1928
Completed: 11/1928
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 988
Dimensions: 3126grt, 1637nrt, 325.0 x 55.2 x 16.4ft
Engines: 2 x T3cyl (14.5, 24 & 39.5 x 27ins), 248nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 8.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 149484
History:
08/11/1928 Creole Petroleum Corp, Newcastle
1928 Creole Petroleum Corp, Maracaibo
1933 Cia Transportadora de Petroleos SA, Buenos Aires
1933 Renamed CRIOLLO BUENO
1938 Renamed ESSO SALTA
25/09/1948 Sank
Comments: 08/11/1928: Sir Joseph W Isherwood & Co acted as the agent in the UK
25/09/1948: Exploded & sank after a lightning strike off Campana
On a voyage from Buenos Aires to Campana
Wreck subsequently refloated and broken up after 07/1952


Above photo as CRIOLLO BUENO is copyright of Auke Visser

Yorkshire Post, Wednesday, 31/10/1928