Name: | M O B 7 |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 1945 |
Completed: | 25/08/1945 |
Builder: | Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 20 |
Dimensions: | 180dwt, 145grt, 48nrt, 104.0 x 19.7 x 7.2ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (10 & 20 x 15ins) |
Engines by: | White’s Marine Engine Co Ltd, Hebburn |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 187698 |
History: | |
25/08/1945 | Royal Army Service Corps |
20/12/1945 | War Office |
20/02/1957 | Pound’s Shipowners & Shipbreakers Ltd, Portsmouth |
15/04/1957 | FT Everard & Sons Ltd, London; renamed TANKITY |
10/1967 | Northern Slipways Ltd, Dublin |
05/1968 | Broken up |
Comments: | Ordered by the Admiralty & built as a Military Oil Barge hence MOB |
18/12/1943: Order transferred to Royal Army Service Corps | |
25/08/1945: Allocated to Stores Dept, Chatham Naval Yard | |
20/12/1945: Transferred to War Office | |
10/1967: Sold to Northern Slipways Ltd, Dublin for breaking up | |
05/1968: Broken up at Dalmuir by W Arnott Young Ltd |
M O B 7 just makes an appearance in this photo courtesy of Philip Simons
Above photo as TANKITY copyright of the World Ship Society
Above photo as TANKITY courtesy of Richard Cox