Name: | HARPORT |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 08/10/1907 |
Completed: | 11/1907 |
Builder: | John Readhead & Sons |
Yard: | West Yard, South Shields |
Yard Number: | 404 |
Dimensions: | 3986grt, 3552nrt, 370.0 x 50.1 x 32.1ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (26, 42 & 70 x 45ins), 374nhp |
Engines by: | John Readhead & Sons, South Shields |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 9.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 125644 |
History: | |
16/11/1907 | J & C Harrison Ltd, London |
1912 | Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Ges, Hamburg. |
1914 | Standard Oil Co (New Jersey), Bayonne NJ; renamed DAYTON |
1923 | JM Botts, New York |
1925 | Olympic SS Co Inc, Seattle; renamed OLYMPIC |
1940 | Petroleum Heat & Power Co, Los Angeles / New York |
1941 | Cia International de Vapores SA & Cia General de Vapores SA, Panama |
1941 | Manager became SS Niarchos |
22/01/1942 | Sank |
Comments: | 1912: Converted to a tanker |
08/1914: At Pisagua and later transferred to the US flag | |
22/01/1942: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U66, 20 miles E of N Carolina's Outer Banks | |
On a voyage from Curacao to Baltimore with a cargo of crude oil | |
Some sources quote that OLYMPIC was sunk by U130 |
Lloyd's List, Thursday, 10/10/1907