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Name: SAN WILFRIDO
Type: Tanker
Launched: 11/02/1914
Completed: 04/1914
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 856
Dimensions: 6458grt, 3928nrt, 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, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 136658
History:
02/04/1914 Eagle Oil Transport Co Ltd, London
03/08/1914 Sank
Comments: 03/08/1914: Mined & sunk off Cuxhaven
On a voyage from Hamburg to Portland & New Orleans in ballast
She had left Hamburg the day before war was declared
09/1920: Wreck removed


Newcastle Journal, Thursday, 12/02/1914