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Name: BEME
Type: Tanker
Launched: 18/04/1904
Completed: 05/1904
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 749
Dimensions: 3039grt, 1899nrt, 309.5 x 41.5 x 20.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (22, 37 & 61 x 42ins), 265nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 95940
History:
1904 Burmah Oil Co Ltd, Rangoon
1931 Anglo-Persian Shipping & Trading Co Ltd (S Catsell), Rangoon
1937 P Diacon Zadeh, Istanbul (Panama flag)
11/07/1940 Sank
Comments: 11/07/1940: Sank after being shelled and torpedoed by Italian
submarine CAPITANO RAFAELE TARANTINI at 33.12N - 33.38E
On a voyage from Haifa to Istanbul in ballast


Above photo courtesy of Photoship