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Name: SAN VALERIO
Type: Tanker
Launched: 14/11/1913
Completed: 12/1913
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 830
Dimensions: 6433grt, 4054nrt, 420.0 x 54.6 x 32.4ft
Engines: Q4cyl (24, 35, 50.5 & 73 x 51ins), 554nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 135301
History:
11/12/1913 Eagle Oil Transport Co Ltd, London
1930 Eagle Oil & Shipping Co Ltd, London
1937 Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd, London
1945 Renamed KUPHUS
1948 Shell Company of Gibraltar Ltd, London
30/05/1953 Broken up
Comments: 30/05/1953: Arrived at Sunderland for breaking up by Thomas Young & Sons Ltd


Above photo as SAN VALERIO is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as KUPHUS is courtesy of Photoship

Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 15/11/1913