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Name: KINSMAN
Type: Tanker
Launched: 01/10/1901
Completed: 1901
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 717
Dimensions: 4534grt, 2965nrt, 360.0 x 49.7 x 28.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 40 & 66 x 48ins), 345nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 115230
History:
1901 Bear Creek Oil & Shipping Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co Ltd), Liverpool
1905 Anglo-American Oil Co Ltd, Liverpool; renamed WINNEBAGO
1912 Tank Storage & Carriage Co Ltd (JH Usmar), Liverpool
1914 Renamed MASCONOMO
1916 Standard Transportation Co Ltd, Hong Kong
1924 Masconomo GmbH, Hamburg
1927 Tankschiff Reed Julius Svhindler GmbH, Hamburg
1928 Renamed IRMA SCHINDLER
1931 Leth & Co, Hamburg
1936 Cia Industrie Marittime Affini Roma, Venice; renamed BURANO
1938 Compagnia Italiana Marittima, Venice
08/09/1943 Government of Germany
23/08/1944 Sank
Comments: 21/04/1941: At St Nazaire and laid up
08/09/1943: Seized by German forces at Bordeaux
23/08/1944: Sank after being scuttled by German forces off Pauillac
1946: Refloated and broken up