Name: | DESABLA |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 16/09/1913 |
Completed: | 11/1913 |
Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 461 |
Dimensions: | 6047grt, 3788nrt, 420.3 x 54.6x 32.4ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (27, 45 & 74 x 48ins), 536nhp |
Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 133159 |
History: | |
05/11/1913 | Bank Line Ltd (A Weir & Co), Glasgow |
12/06/1915 | Sank |
Comments: | 12/06/1915: Sank after being captured, torpedoed and shelled by U-Boat |
U17 when 15 miles east of Tod Head near Aberdeen | |
On a voyage from Port Arthur to the UK with a cargo of linseed oil | |
Launch date from TIC records, some sources state it was on the 18th |
Jarrow Express, Friday, 28/11/1913