San Fraterno class

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Ship data

associated ships

10

Ship type Tankers
later partly whaling mother ships
Shipping company Eagle Oil Transport Company, London
Order 1912
Shipyard Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson (3)
Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company (2)
William Doxford & Sons (2)
Armstrong-Whitworth (3)
Commissioning April 1913
Decommissioning The last ship on September
6, 1962
Cruising areas Liner service Europe-Mexico
later worldwide service
Ship dimensions and crew
length
164.6 m ( Lüa )
width 20.0 m
Draft Max. 8.5 m
measurement around 12,000 GRT
Machine system
machine Quadruple expansion steam engine
Top
speed 		11.5 kn (21 km / h)
propeller 1
Transport capacities
Load capacity ~ 15500 dw
Others
Classifications Lloyd's Register

The San Fraterno- class was a group of ten oil tankers . They were the largest oil tankers in the world when they went into service right before the outbreak of the First World War .
Five of the ships were in the late 1920s to whaling - factory vessels rebuilt.

history

background

The Royal Navy was in the midst of converting its ships from coal to oil in 1911/12. Weetman Pearson , who later became Lord Cowdray and owner of the British Pearson Group with a strong business interest in Central America, especially in the Mexican region (Aguila (Mexican Eagle) Oil Company), received an order from the Admiralty to set up the necessary production infrastructure and a long-term supply contract large amounts of fuel oil. To this end, Pearson founded a London subsidiary, the Eagle Oil Transport Company, and ordered six ships, each with a 9,000 ton deadweight, the San Dunstano class and ten ships with a 16,000 ton deadweight, the San Fraterno class.

Resumes

The ships had remarkably different lives. Seven ships were torpedoed during the First World War, five of them sunk. Three of the torpedoed ships were brought in or lifted after the war and later converted into whale boilers. The type ship San Fraterno was also among those torpedoed, but it only sank years later, in 1927 at Carlos Island. From 1919 the remaining ships under Shell paints were employed in the crude oil and product trade. Half of the class, the San Gregorio , the San Jeronimo , the San Lorenzo , the San Nazario and the San Patricio were converted into whaling mother ships in the late 1920s . During the Second World War , two of them, the Thorshammer and the Southern Empress, escaped a pirate voyage by the German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin in January 1941 . Several other ships of the class were lost in World War II, but three survived after 1945. Two of them were demolished in the 1950s, including the San Melito , the only ship that remained with Eagle Oil throughout its service life . The last ship that started its voyage to the scrapping yard was the Norwegian whale-boiling Thorshammer , the former San Nazario . It reached the CN Santa Maria demolition plant in La Spezia on September 6, 1962.

technology

When they were built, the ships were the largest tankers in the world. They had 24 cargo tanks, which were divided with longitudinal and transverse bulkheads. The tanks could be heated with heating coils so that viscous oils could also be transported. The pump output was 1200 tons per hour. The boilers of the ships with steam engine propulsion were notably fired with coal, despite the oil cargo. The speed of the San Fraterno tankers was around ten knots.

The ships

Ship name Shipyard Commissioning Later names modification Whereabouts
San Fraterno Swan Hunter ,
Wallsend 		April 1913 - On July 29, 1927, walked on rock in the Strait of Magellan and sank
San Gregorio Swan Hunter July 1913 CA Larsen Antarctic Whaling mother ship From August 7, 1954, canceled at Lehr & Co. in Hamburg
San Hilario Palmers ,
Jarrow 		December 1913 - Sunk by U 43 on April 20, 1917 200 nautical miles west of Cape Clear
San Lorenzo Swan Hunter February 1914 Ole Wegger Whaling mother ship Sunk as a block ship in Rouen on August 26, 1944 . Lifted in 1947 and broken up in Sweden
San Jeronimo Doxford ,
Sunderland 		February 1914 Southern Empress Whaling mother ship On 13./14. Sunk by U 221 400 nautical miles south of Cape Farewell in October 1943
San Isidoro Armstrong ,
Newcastle 		March 1914 Dordogne , Silverlip , Dordogne In the roads by on June 18, 1940 Brest scuttled
San Melito Palmers April 1914 - Canceled from May 30, 1954 in Faslane
San Nazario Doxford September 1914 Thor's hammer Whaling mother ship Canceled from September 6, 1962 at CN Santa Maria in La Spezia
San Onofre Armstrong September 1914 - Sunk by U 48 on May 12, 1917 west of the Shannon estuary
San Patricio Armstrong May 1915 Southern Princess Whaling mother ship Sunk by U 600 in convoy HX 229 on the Atlantic on March 17, 1943

literature

  • RK Lochner: The amazing story of the "San Fraterno" class of the Eagle Oil shipping company. Hamburger Rundbrief issue 76/83, pages 1-7.
  • Laurence Dunn: Eagle Oil in Ships monthly No. 1, Vol. 29, January 1994, pp. 44/45.
  • Tony Gibson: The world of ships . Basserman Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8094-2186-3 , page 204.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RK Lochner: The amazing history of the "San Fraterno" class of the tanker shipping company Eagle Oil Transport Co.Ltd. In: Hamburger Rundbrief - Issue 1/1983 . Vol. XIV, No. 76 , 1983, pp. 2-7 .
  2. ^ Fall of the San Fraterno
  3. ^ Sinking of the San Hilario
  4. ↑ Sinking of the Dordogne
  5. ^ Biography of the San Melito
  6. ↑ The sinking of the San Onofre