Name: | ROMANY |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 10/03/1902 |
Completed: | 1902 |
Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 720 |
Dimensions: | 3952grt, 2501nrt, 350.0 x 47.0 x 27.4ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (25, 42 & 68 x 45ins), 346nhp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 9.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 115808 |
History: | |
1902 | Romany SS Co Ltd (Lane & Macandrew), London |
1902 | Deutsche Russische Naptha Import Ges, Hamburg; renamed ROSSIJA |
1907 | Asiatic Petroleum Co Ltd, London; renamed ROMANY |
1908 | Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd, London |
27/04/1918 | Sank |
Comments: | 27/04/1918: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat UB48 when 47 miles |
SW by W of Cape Spartivento at 38.22N – 08/04E | |
On a voyage from Marseille to Port Said in ballast |
Above photo as ROMANY courtesy of Photoship