Name: | GERMANIC |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 22/10/1930 |
Completed: | 01/1931 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 1396 |
Dimensions: | 6320grt, 3912nrt, 420.7 x 57.6 x 32.3ft |
Engines: | Oil engine, 2SCSA, Doxford type, 4cyl (23.5 x 91.25in), 687nhp |
Engines by: | Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd, Glasgow |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 12.0knots |
Reg Number: | 162213 |
History: | |
21/01/1931 | Sir Walter H Cockerline, Hull |
1932 | Government of the USSR - Soyuzneft, Tuapse; renamed STANISLAV KASSIOR |
1938 | Renamed TUAPSE |
04/07/1942 | Sank |
Comments: | 04/07/1942: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U129, 90 miles NExN of Cancun |
On a voyage from Durban to New Orleans in ballast |
Shields Daily News, Saturday, 17/01/1931