Mexpetro - Mantilla
1916-1916/ 1916-1939 Tanker steam
Buildingyard: Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd., Newcastle
Built year: 1916
Yard no: 886
Tonnage: GRT: 5671/ NET: 3495/ TDW: 9100
Dims: LOA: 407,0/ BR: 52,2/ DR: 31,4ft
Machinery: 3-cyl tripleexp steam engine by North Eastern Marine Eng. Co.,
Newcastle
IHP: 2200
Speed: 10,5 knots
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16.06.1916: Launched as MEXPETRO
00.12.1916: Renamed MANTILLA
12.01.1918: Completed. Upon war requsition placed under management of H.E. Moss & Co. (W.H. Cohan), Liverpool.
Price paid: NOK 1.480.134,82
00.06.1920: Returned to service for Wilh. Wilhelmsen
00.03.1939: Sold to John T. Essberger, Germany. Renamed NORDMEER
03.09.1939: Lying at Willemstad
09.12.1939: Fire broke out. Returned to Germany
00.01.1940: Taken over by the German Navy as a supportanker at Wilhelmshaven
26.08.1944: Scuttled in the River Gironde near Bassens as a blockadeship.
02.12.1946: Refloated. Later repaired. It was initially ment that the vessel would be sold to Soc. Francais des Petrolier with new name TIERACHE
00.00.1948: Purchased by S.A. Les Petroles d' Outremer, France. Renamed ARTVINE
09.08.1954: Arrived at Tyne for scrapping by Clayton & Davie Ltd., Dunston