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Name: MANNHEIM
Type: Tanker
Launched: 16/07/1892
Completed: 08/1892
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 592
Dimensions: 3578grt, 2287nrt, 328.5x 43.0 x 29.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 40 & 64 x 48ins), 284nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
08/1892 Deutsche-Amerikanische Petroleum Ges, Hamburg
1914 Imperial German Navy; renamed DEPOTDAMPFER C
1919 Allied Reparations Committee
1921 Soc Anon "Andora", Genoa; renamed SCINTILLA
1922 Broken up
Comments: 1914: Requisitioned by the Imperial German Navy as a storage tanker
1921: Remained laid up at Leith, did not trade for Italian owners
1922: Broken up at Hamburg


Above photo as MANNHEIM copyright of Newcastle City Libraries