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Name: OILFIELD
Type: Tanker
Launched: 01/05/1923
Completed: 06/1923
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 224
Dimensions: 5387grt, 3063nrt, 365.2 x 51.3 x 30.7ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, 467nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 145529
History:
15/06/1923 Field Tank Steamship Co Ltd (Hunting & Son), Newcastle
1937 Mid-Atlantic Shipping Co Ltd (Townsend Brothers Shipping Ltd), Newcastle
1937 Renamed ENGLISH TANKER
1941 Spanish Government (CAMPSA); renamed CASTILLO ALMENARA
1947 Cia Arrendataria del MonopolIo de Petroleos, Cadiz; renamed CAMPOSINES
07/1967 Broken Up
Comments: 07/06/1938: Damaged in Spanish Nationalist air attack while at Alicante
discharging oil, abandoned by crew and sank
26/04/1939: Refloated and repaired
07/1967: Broken up at Castellon by Desguaces Incolesa


Above photo as OILFIELD is courtesy of Clive Ketley

Above photo as OILFIELD is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as OILFIELD is courtesy of Greek Shipping Miracle

Above photo as CAMPOSINES is copyright of Robert Boman