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Name: OSAGE
Type: Tanker
Launched: 22/05/1913
Completed: 06/1913
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 826
Dimensions: 4973grt, 2950nrt, 380.0 x 52.8 x 29.0ft
Engines: Q4cyl (20.25, 29.25, 42.25 & 61 x 45ins), 332nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1925: 148552)
History:
06/1913 Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Ges, Hamburg
1914 Standard Oil Co (New Jersey), New York; renamed BATON ROUGE
12/02/1925 European Shipping Co Ltd (B Rappport), London; renamed OLTERRA
1927 British Oil Shipping Co ltd (AA Rapp), London
1930 Andrea Zanchi, Genoa
1947 Renamed EMMA (not officially registered)
1948 Andrea Zanchi, Genoa; renamed OLTERRA
1951 Ditta Andrea Zanchi, Genoa
09/01/1961 Broken up
Comments: 08/1914: At Tampico, transferred to USA ownership
10/06/1940: At Algeciras, sabotaged and sunk by British commandos
Later used as a base for Italian midget submarines to attack British shipping at Gibraltar
09/01/1961: Arrived at Savona for breaking up by Ilva SpA


Above photo as OLTERRA is copyright of Giorgio Spazzapan

Above photo as OLTERRA is copyright of Giorgio Spazzapan

Above photo as OLTERRA is copyright of Giorgio Spazzapan