SS Elsinore
British steam tanker sunk in 1914 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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SS Elsinore was a British steam tanker that was built on Tyneside in 1913. Her career was cut short by a German cruiser sinking her off the Pacific coast of Mexico in September 1914.
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Elsinore |
Namesake | Elsinore in Shakespeare's Hamlet |
Owner | Bear Creek Oil & Shipping Co |
Operator | CT Bowring & Co |
Port of registry | Liverpool |
Builder | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend |
Yard number | 931 |
Launched | 12 November 1913 |
Completed | December 1913 |
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Fate | sunk by gunfire, 11 September 1914 |
General characteristics | |
Type | oil tanker |
Tonnage | 6,542 GRT, 4,169 NRT, 9,700 DWT |
Length | 420.5 ft (128.2 m) |
Beam | 54.6 ft (16.6 m) |
Depth | 32.4 ft (9.9 m) |
Decks | 2 |
Installed power | 484 NHP |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h) |
Notes | sister ships: Cordelia, Rosalind, El Toro, El Zorro |
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