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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