Name: | EMPIRE BRONZE |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 19/08/1940 |
Completed: | 11/1940 |
Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 627 |
Dimensions: | 12000dwt, 8142grt, 4770nrt, 465.3 x 59.3 x 33.8ft |
Engines: | Oil engine, 4SCSA, Werkspoor type, 8cyl (650 x 1400mm), 502nhp |
Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.5knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 168646 |
History: | |
30/10/1940 | Ministry of War Transport (A Weir & Co, managers), South Shields |
1942 | Ministry of War Transport (Anglo American Oil Co Ltd, managers), South Shields |
1945 | Anglo American Oil Co Ltd (RA Carder, managers), South Shields |
1946 | Renamed ESSO CADILLAC |
1951 | Esso Petroleum Co Ltd, South Shields |
1956 | Mariblanca Nav SA, Monrovia, Liberia; renamed MARIBELLA II |
14/08/1959 | Broken up |
Comments: | 14/08/1959: Broken up by Hanwa Co Ltd at Osaka |
Above photo as ESSO CADILLAC is courtesy of WH Brown
Above photo as ESSO CADILLAC is courtesy of Stuart Smith