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Name: SAXOLEINE
Type: Tanker
Launched: 06/09/1899
Completed: 10/1899
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 693
Dimensions: 3741grt, 2329nrt, 335.7 x 45.0 x 28.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 40 & 64 x 48ins), 275nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 110345
History:
10/1899 Saxoleine Steamship Co Ltd (Hunting & Son), Newcastle
1927 Northern Petroleum Tank Steamship Co Ltd (Hunting & Son), Newcastle
1928 Soc Anon di Nav "Cisterne Italiane", Genoa; renamed CELENO
1938 Cisterne Italiane Soliani & Saltamerenda, Genoa
1943 Government of Germany; renamed CLAUDIA
1944 Renamed ELBING
1944 Government of the USSR; renamed GROZNYI
1965 Chernomorskoye morskoye parokhodstvo, Odessa
1965 Paul Christensen, Nakskov; renamed RUTH
14/04/1966 Broken up
Comments: 1943: Seized by the German Government in the Black Sea
1944: Seized by the USSR
1944: Also seen as GROSNY and GROZNYI
14/04/1966: Broken up at Hamburg by Eckhardt & Co


Above photo as SAXOLEINE copyright of Tyne & Wear Museums

Above photo as SAXOLEINE courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as GROSNY taken 11/04/1966 is copyright of Michael Neidig