Name: | JAMES BRAND |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 18/03/1893 |
Completed: | 04/1893 |
Builder: | Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 604 |
Dimensions: | 3907grt, 2512nrt, 340.0 x 44.1 x 23.0ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (25, 41 & 67 x 48ins), 326nhp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 101994 |
History: | |
04/1893 | Steamship Fedsden Ltd (A Suart), London |
1897 | European Petroleum Co Ltd (J Clark), London |
1911 | Cia Mexicana de Petroleo "El Aguila" SA, Tampico |
1911 | Renamed SAN BERNARDO |
1923 | A/S Bas II (NT Nielsen-Alonso), Sandefjord; renamed BAS II |
1925 | A/S South Atlantic (L Bruun), Tonsberg; renamed ESPERANCA |
1926 | Hvalfangerselsk Mexico A/S (L Thorsen), Sandefjord |
1926 | Renamed ESPERANZA |
1933 | A/S Ishavet av 1933 (Leif Bryde), Sandefjord |
1936 | Anders Jahre, Sandefjord |
1937 | Skibs A/S Vestavind (M Konow & Co), Oslo; renamed VESTAVIND |
12/1937 | Broken up |
Comments: | 1923: Converted to a whale factory ship |
1936: Converted back to a tanker | |
29/05/1937: Damaged by an explosion at Willemstad, Curacao | |
12/1937: Broken up in Germany |
Above photo as SAN BERNARDO is courtery of Photoship