| Name: | GLÜCKAUF |
| Type: | Tanker |
| Launched: | 16/06/1886 |
| Completed: | 07/1886 |
| Builder: | Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 473B |
| Dimensions: | 2307grt, 1687nrt, 300.5 x 37.2 x 23.2ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (22, 35 & 58 x 36ins), 200nhp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.5knots |
| Construction: | Iron & Steel |
| Reg Number: | n/a |
| History: | |
| 07/1886 | WA Riedemann, Geestemünde |
| 1890 | Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Ges, Geestemünde |
| 25/03/1893 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | Regarded as the world's first purpose built tanker |
| 25/03/1893: Wrecked on Blue Point Beach, Fire Island, New York | |
| On a voyage from Stettin to New York in ballast | |
| 07/04/1893: Dislodged by tug, but hawser broke & ran aground again |
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