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Name: LA CARRIERE
Type: Tanker
Launched: 02/06/1938
Completed: 08/1938
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 1555
Dimensions: 5685grt, 3231nrt, 415.0 x 53.8 x 30.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (26, 44 & 74 x 48ins), 590nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Reg Number: 166530
History:
08/1938 Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd, London
25/02/1942 Sank
Comments: 25/02/1942: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U156,
100 miles south of Puerto Rico at 16.53N - 67.05W
On a voyage from New York to Trinidad in ballast