Name: | EMPIRE TESDALE |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 22/10/1945 |
Completed: | 05/1946 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Neptune yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 1844 |
Dimensions: | 980grt, 533nrt, 988dwt, 201.2 x 34.2 x 13.1ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (13.5, 22.75 & 38 x 27), 145nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co (1938) Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 9.5knots |
Reg Number: | 169212 |
History: | |
14/05/1946 | Ministry of Transport (Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd), Newcastle |
1946 | Burmah Oil Co (Tankers) Ltd, Rangoon; renamed BEME |
1948 | Burmah Oil Co (Burma Trading) Ltd, London & Rangoon |
1963 | The Burma Oil Co (1954) Ltd (Govt of Burma), Rangoon |
1964 | The People's Oil Industry, Rangoon; renamed YENAN |
1965 | Burma Ports Corporation, Rangoon |
01/07/1980 | Broken up |
Comments: | 01/07/1980: Breaking up commenced at Sinmalaik Dockyard, Rangoon |
Above photo as BEME is courtesy of Photoship