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Name: CYMBELINE
Type: Tanker
Launched: 02/09/1902
Completed: 1902
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 726
Dimensions: 4505grt, 2940nrt, 370.0 x 48.5 x 28.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (25, 42 & 70 x 48ins), 412nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 115323
History:
1902 Bear Creek Oil & Shipping Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co Ltd), Liverpool
04/09/1915 Sank
Comments: 04/09/1915: Sank after being captured and torpedoed by
U-Boat U33 29 miles W by S of Fastnet Rock
On a voyage from Port Arthur to Dartmouth with a cargo of oil


Above photo courtesy of Clive Ketley

Shields Daily Gazette, Wednesday, 03/09/1902