| Name: | MADRONO |
| Type: | Tanker |
| Launched: | 11/11/1916 |
| Completed: | 04/1917 |
| Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Jarrow |
| Yard Number: | 846 |
| Dimensions: | 5854grt, 3697nrt, 407.6 x 52.3 x 31.6ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (26.5, 44 & 73 x 48ins), 498nhp |
| Engines by: | George Clark Ltd, Sunderland |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 140293 |
| History: | |
| 30/04/1917 | HE Moss & Co Ltd, London (as nominees) |
| 1919 | A/S Tankfart IV (Wilh Wilhelmsen), Tønsberg |
| 1929 | Skibs A/S Madrono (Hans Borge), Tønsberg |
| 1938 | Manager became Finn Poulsen, Oslo |
| 1939 | A/S Norsk Rutefart (AI Langfeldt & Co), Kristiansand |
| 1942 | Deutsches Reich (Waried Tankschiff-Reederei GmbH), Hamburg |
| 1942 | Renamed ROSSBACH |
| 07/05/1944 | Sank |
| Comments: | 04/07/1942: Captured by German auxiliary cruiser THOR, 2300 miles E of Durban |
| On a voyage from Melbourne to Abadan in ballast | |
| Taken to Japan by a prize crew | |
| 07/05/1944: Torpedoed & sunk by submarine USS BURRFISH | |
| when south of Muroto Zaki, Shikoku, in position 33.14N - 134.14E |
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