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Name: RION
Type: Tanker
Launched: 17/06/1889
Completed: 08/1889
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 629
Dimensions: 2186grt, 1419nrt, 279.0 x 37.7 x 19.1ft
Engines: T3cyl (22, 35 & 58 x 39ins), 216nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 96150
History:
07/08/1889 Rion Steam Ship Co Ltd (Stephens & Mawson), Newcastle
1901 Managers became Stephens, Sutton & Stephens
1918 Managers became British Tanker Co Ltd, London
1919 Petroleum Steamship Co Ltd, London
1920 Rion Steam Ship Co Ltd (S & J Thompson), London
1924 Societa Armatrice Italiana, Genoa; renamed ITALIANO
1925 Ditta Federico Garolla, Naples; renamed FEDERICO GAROLLA
19/04/1930 Sank
Comments: 19/04/1930: Sank after an explosion between Zante and Cephalonia
On a voyage from Fiume to Novorossiysk in ballast