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Name: ROSALIND
Type: Tanker
Launched: 08/03/1913
Completed: 04/1913
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 919
Dimensions: 6535grt, 4176nrt, 420.5 x 54.6 x 32.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (27, 45 & 75 x 48ins), 484nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 135452
History:
11/04/1913 Oil Tank Steamship Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co Ltd), Liverpool
06/04/1917 Sank
Comments: 06/04/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U86 when 180 miles WNW of Fastnet
On a voyage from Port Arthur & Norfolk to Queenstown with a cargo of oil


The Scotsman, Monday, 10/03/1913