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Name: HAFIS
Type: Tanker
Launched: 24/12/1886
Completed: 1886
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 270
Dimensions: 2094grt, 967nrt, 270.0 x 36.0 x 25.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (20, 32 & 53 x 36ins), 169nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number:
History:
1886 HGC Renck (Renck & Hessenmuller), Hamburg
1889 Tank Dampf Ges, Hamburg
1894 Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Ges, Hamburg
1896 Cie Française des Pétroles de l'Amérique du Sud, Le Havre
1896 Renamed LA MADELEINE
1901 Soc Com de Port St Louis du Rhône, St Loius du Rhône
1908 Chevilotte Frères, Brest
13/03/1918 Sank
Comments: 1886: Built with engines aft
1908: Converted to dry cargo vessel
13/03/1918: Sank after a collision with an unidentified vessel when 18 miles
SW of Hartland Point on a voyage from Cardiff to Rochefort with coal.