Name: | STANDARD |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 18/01/1890 |
Completed: | 05/1890 |
Builder: | Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 554 |
Dimensions: | 2730grt, 1748nrt, 308.7 x 40.2 x 28.3ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (23, 37 & 60 x 39ins), 225nhp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
05/1890 | Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Ges, Hamburg |
1914 | Standard Oil Co (New Jersey), New York; renamed MOTANO |
30/07/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | 08/1914: Transferred to USA flag at Baton Rouge |
30/07/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat UC47, 20 miles SE of Start Point | |
On a voyage from New York to Portsmouth with a cargo of fuel oil |
Above photo as STANDARD copyright of Auke Visser