| Name: | F A TAMPLIN |
| Type: | Tanker |
| Launched: | 06/11/1912 |
| Completed: | 12/1912 |
| Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 824 |
| Dimensions: | 3999grt, 2429nrt, 350.6 x 47.6 x 26.4ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (25, 41 & 66 x 45ins), 346nhp |
| Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 135167 |
| History: | |
| 04/12/1912 | FA Tamplin Steamship Co Ltd (TW Tamplin & Co), London |
| 1920 | Meade-King, Robinson & Co Ltd, London |
| 1921 | Soc Anon d'Armement, d'Industrie et de Commerce, Antwerp |
| 1921 | Renamed ARMINCO |
| 1930 | Soc Italiana Trasporti Petroliferi, Genoa; renamed LUCIFERO |
| 1933 | Societa Petrolifera Esercizi Marittimi, Genoa |
| 1941 | Petroleos Mexicanos SA, Tampico; renamed POTRERO DEL LLANO |
| 14/05/1942 | Sank |
| Comments: | 06/1940: Interned at Tampico |
| 12/1941: Seized by the Government of Mexico | |
| 14/05/1942: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U564, 14 miles SE of Miami, Fa | |
| On a voyage from Tampico to New York with a cargo of diesel oil |
Above photo as POTRERO DEL LLANO is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo shows POTRERO DEL LLANO after the torpedo attack. Photo is copyright of J Rohwer, War at Sea