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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