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Name: EMPIRE TESLIN
Type: Tanker
Launched: 05/10/1945
Completed: 04/1946
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 1842
Dimensions: 980grt, 533nrt, 988dwt, 201.2 x 34.2 x 13.1ft; (1954: 1157grt, 240,6ft)
Engines: T3cyl (13.5, 22.75 & 38 x 27), 145nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co (1938) Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.0knots
Reg Number: 169208
History:
29/03/1946 Ministry of Transport (Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd), Newcastle
1946 Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd, London; renamed FRAGUM
1948 Shell-Mex & BP Ltd, London; renamed SHELBRIT 8
1952 Renamed SHELL SUPPLIER
1967 Marine Water Supply Co Ltd, Piraeus; renamed SOFIA
05/05/1971 Broken up
Comments: 1954: Lengthened to 240.6ft
05/05/1971: Arrived at Perama for breaking up by M Constantinides


Above photo as SHELL SUPPLIER is courtesy of Kees Helder

Above photo as SHELL SUPPLIER is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as SHELL SUPPLIER is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as SHELL SUPPLIER is courtesy of Bobby Sinclair

Above photo as SHELL SUPPLIER is courtesy of John Gillespie