Name: | OBERON |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 05/11/1907 |
Completed: | 12/1907 |
Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 801 |
Dimensions: | 5142grt, 3161nrt, 385.0 x 50.5 x 30.2ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (26.25, 43 & 72 x 48ins), 432nhp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 124105 |
History: | |
19/12/1907 | Bear Creek Oil & Shipping Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co), Liverpool |
1917 | Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd, London; renamed ARGONAUTA |
26/10/1931 | Broken up |
Comments: | 03/04/1917: Torpedoed & damaged by U-Boat UC22 |
Towed to Malta for repairs & returned to service | |
26/10/1931: Arrived at Osaka for breaking up |
Above photo as OBERON is courtesy of Kees Helder
Above photo as ARGONAUTA is courtesy of Photoship