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Name: GYMERIC
Type: Tanker
Launched: 1917
Completed: 08/1917
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 476
Dimensions: 6138grt, 3838nrt, 420.3 x 54.6 x ft
Engines: T3cyl (27, 45 & 74 x 48ins), 536nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 137851
History:
08/1917 Bank Line Ltd (A Weir & Co), London
1938 “Corrado” Soc Anon di Navigazione, Genoa; renamed CESCO
1950 Broken up
Comments: 15/08/1943: Beached after being torpedoed by submarine HMS UNRULY
off Brindisi, refloated and laid up at Naples from 29/06/1944.
1950: Broken up in Italy


Above photo as GYMERIC courtesy of Clive Ketley