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Name: AURIS
Type: Tanker
Launched: 19/05/1947
Completed: 04/1948
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 686
Dimensions: 8221grt, 4701nrt, 465.0 x 59.2 x 33.8ft
Engines: 4 x Oil engines, Sulzer type, 8cyl (340 x 480mm) + 1 x Electric motor, 831mn;
(1951: 3 x Oil engines, 8cyl (340 x 480mm) + 1 x Gas turbine to electric motor, 831mn);
(1959: 2 x Gas turbines)
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle; (1959: British Thomson-Houston, Rugby)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 181847
History:
17/02/1948 Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd, London
1955 Shell Petroleum Co Ltd, London
1960 Shell Tankers Ltd, London
08/1962 Broken up
Comments: Experimental diesel-electric propulsion, modified in 1951
1959: Re-engined with 2 x Gas turbines
08/1962: Broken up at Blyth by Hughes Bolckow Ltd


Above photo is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo is copyright of Peter Cook