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Name: WAR MEHTAR
Type: Tanker
Launched: 09/10/1919
Completed: 03/1920
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 954
Dimensions: 5502grt, 3407nrt, 400.2 x 52.4 x 28.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (27, 44 & 73 x 48ins), 517nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 144350
History:
24/01/1920 The Shipping Controller (Hunting & Son), London
1921 The Admiralty
20/11/1941 Sank
Comments: 20/11/1941: Torpedoed & sunk by German MTB S104, 18 miles E of Great Yarmouth
On a voyage from Grangemouth to Harwich with a cargo of fuel oil


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