Name: | WAR MAKER |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 28/01/1918 |
Completed: | 03/1918 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 1061 |
Dimensions: | 5496grt, 3385nrt, 400.3 x 52.2 x 28.4ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (27, 44 & 73 x 48ins), 517nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Reg Number: | 142338 |
History: | |
03/1918 | The Shipping Controller (Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd), London |
1919 | Soc de Nav Roma, Genoa / Palermo; renamed ROSARIO |
1925 | Lloyd Adriatico Soc di Navigazione, Venice |
1929 | Soc Anon Cooperativa di Nav "Garibaldi", Genoa |
10/03/1943 | Sank |
Comments: | 1918: Built with cylindrical cargo tanks |
1940: Tanks removed, converted to dry cargo ship | |
10/03/1943: Torpedoed & sunk by submarine HMS TROOPER | |
4 miles from Punta Milazzo on a voyage from Naples to Tunisia |