| Name: | KURA |
| Type: | Tanker |
| Launched: | 03/08/1889 |
| Completed: | 08/1889 |
| Builder: | Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 555 |
| Dimensions: | 2391grt, 1532nrt, 294.0 x 37.7 x 20.2ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (22.5, 36.5 & 60 x 39ins), 243nhp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 96153 |
| History: | |
| 08/1889 | Kura Steam Ship Co Ltd (Stephens & Mawson), Newcastle |
| 1901 | Managers became Stephens, Sutton & Stephens |
| 1918 | Managers became British Tanker Co Ltd |
| 1918 | Petroleum Steamship Co Ltd, London |
| 1922 | British Tanker Co Ltd, London |
| 1924 | Soc Armatrice Italiana, Genoa; renamed PERSIANO |
| 1939 | Ditta GM Barbagelata, Genoa |
| 12/04/1941 | Sank |
| Comments: | 12/04/1941: Sank after being torpedoed by submarine HMS TETRARCH about |
| 40 miles north of Tripoli on a voyage from Palermo to Tripoli with a cargo of petrol | |
| Sunk by an escort later in the day |