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Name: RUSSIAN PRINCE
Type: Tanker
Launched: 02/07/1912
Completed: 09/1912
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 183
Dimensions: 4158grt, 2560nrt, 357.2 x 48.2 x 28.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (25, 42 & 68 x 48ins), 362nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 133513
History:
28/08/1912 Prince Line Ltd (James Knott), Newcastle
1917 Managers Furness, Withy & Co Ltd
1918 British Tanker Co Ltd, London; renamed BRITISH MARSHAL
1930 Societa Italiana Trasporti Petroliferi, Genoa; renamed TRITONE
05/1933 Broken up
Comments: 07/03/1933: Stranded at Tenedos on a voyage from Algiers to Constantza
12/05/1933: Arrived at La Spezia for breaking up


Above photo as BRITISH MARSHAL is courtesy of Photoship