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Name: SAN URBANO
Type: Tanker
Launched: 30/09/1913
Completed: 11/1913
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 855
Dimensions: 6458grt, 4053nrt, 420.3 x 54.7 x 32.6ft
Engines: Q4cyl (24, 35, 50.5 & 73 x 51ins), 554nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 135285
History:
12/11/1913 Eagle Oil Transport Co Ltd, London
01/05/1917 Sank
Comments: 01/05/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U81, 180 miles NWxW of Fastnet
On a voyage from Puerto Mexico to London with a cargo of naptha