Gut Heil 1888

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Name:	GUT HEIL
Type:	Tanker
Launched:	25/08/1888
Completed:	09/1888
Builder:	Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard:	Low Walker
Yard Number:	522
Dimensions:	2691grt, 1715nrt, 309.5 x 40.2 x 28.2ft
Engines:	T3cyl (23, 37 & 60 x 39ins), 225nhp
Engines by:	Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion:	1 x Screw
Construction:	Steel
Reg Number:	n/a
History:
09/1888	WA Riedemann & AN Schütte, Geestemünde
1891	Deutsche-Amerikanische Petroleum Ges, Hamburg
1918	JW Thompson Co, New Orleans; renamed SARA THOMPSON
08/1918	Government of USA
08/1934	Alberto Berrette, Manila; renamed SARANGANI
01/1942	Government of Japan; renamed SANRAKU MARU
15/06/1943	Sank

Comments:	28/04/1913: Broke adrift at Baton Rouge & sank after collision with BULYSSES
	1917: Wreck sold to JW Thompson
	06/12/1917: Refloated and repaired at New Orleans
	08/08/1918: Requisitioned by the US Navy; assigned NOTS pennant SP-3148
	17/07/1920: Assigned pennant AO-8
	08/12/1921: Used as a floating oil storage facility at Cavite
	08/1934: Used as floating storage in the Philippines
	01/1942: Seized by Japan near Manila; and refitted
	15/06/1943: Torpedoed & sunk by US submarine USS TROUT when
	she was 90 miles W of Lahad Datu in the Celebes Sea