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Name: ANGLO-SWEDE
Type: Tanker
Launched: 18/10/1929
Completed: 03/1930
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co (Shipbuilders) Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 1048
Dimensions: 9033grt, 4490nrt, 461.1 x 59.9 x 33.8ft
Engines: Oil engine, 2SCSA, 7cyl (26.5 x 49.5ins), 848nhp
Engines by: Atlas Diesel Company, Stockholm
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1940: 168187)
History:
03/1930 Rederi A/B Tanker (R Wylandt), Stockholm
1932 A/S D/S Svendborg og A/S D/A af 1912 (AP Møller), Fredericia
1932 Renamed ANGLO MAERSK
1940 Ministry of War Transport (Houlder Bros & Co Ltd), London
27/10/1942 Sank
Comments: 26/10/1942: Torpedoed & damaged by U-Boat U509, 410 miles W of Las Palmas
On a voyage from Pointe Noire and Freetown to the Clyde in ballast
27/10/1942: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U604, 250 miles further east


Above photo as ANGLO MAERSK is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as ANGLO MAERSK is courtesy of Photoship