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 |