| Name: | TYMERIC launched as WAR MAMMOTH |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 02/04/1919 |
| Completed: | 28/05/1919 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 499 |
| Dimensions: | 5228grt, 3178nrt, 400.1 x 52.3 x 28.5ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (27, 44 & 73 x 48ins), 517nhp |
| Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co, Jarrow |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 141903 |
| History: | |
| 23/05/1919 | Bank Line Ltd (A Weir & Co, managers), Glasgow |
| 23/11/1940 | Sank |
| Comments: | 02/04/1919: Launched as WAR MAMMOTH for UK Government |
| 23/11/1940: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U123, 350 miles WNW of Malin Head | |
| In convoy OB244 (Hull to Buenos Aires) with a cargo of coal | |
| 71 crew were lost. 4 survivors were picked up by HMS SANDWICH |
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