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Name: HALIOTIS
Type: Tanker
Launched: 22/02/1898
Completed: 09/1898
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 678
Dimensions: 1659grt, 1046nrt, 242.0 x 40.2 x 17.3ft
Engines: C2cyl (30 & 63 x 39ins), 217nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 109966
History:
09/1898 Shell Transport & Trading Co Ltd (M Samuel & Co), London
1901 Nederlandsche-Indische Industrie & Handel Mij, Balikpapan
1904 Nederlandsche-Indische Tankstoomboot Mij, Batavia
1910 Managers became Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd
1923 Nafta Soc Italiana pel Petrolio ed Affini, Genoa; renamed NAFTA
1925 Renamed AUREOLA
1940 Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli, Genoa; renamed ZEILA
23/03/1943 Sank
Comments: Designed to distribute fuel oil from Borneo to Far Eastern ports
1922: Reported hulked but sold for further trading
23/03/1943: Torpedoed & sunk by HMS UNISON, 4 miles from Cape Spartivento
On a voyage from Crotone to Messina


Above photo as HALIOTIS is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as AUREOLA is courtesy of the Flor Van Otterdyk collection

Lloyd's List, Thursday, 08/09/1898