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SS Dordogne

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Steam-powered oil tanker that served the French Navy

History
United Kingdom; France
Name
  • SS San Isidoro;
  • SS Dordogne
Namesake
Owner
BuilderArmstrong Whitworth
Yard number852
Launched17 December 1913
CompletedMarch 1914
IdentificationOfficial number 1136646
FateScuttled 18 June 1940
General characteristics
Class and typeOil tanker
Tonnage12,500 DWT
Displacement7,333 tons
Length530 ft (160 m)
Beam66 ft 6 in (20.27 m)
Draught29 ft (8.8 m)
Installed power4,100 IHP
Propulsionsingle shaft driven by steam engine with two boilers
Speed11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)

SS Dordogne was a steam-powered oil tanker that served the French Navy. She was formerly a British merchant ship, SS San Isidoro, of the Eagle Oil Transport Company.

History

In 1912 Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray founded the Eagle Oil Transport Company to transport oil from his Mexican Eagle Petroleum Company's oilfields in Mexico to the United Kingdom. The company ordered a fleet of 20 tankers from British shipyards. They included the sister ships San Isidoro and San Onofre from Armstrong Whitworth at Hebburn on the River Tyne in north-east England.

The French government bought SS San Isidoro in the year she was launched and renamed her Dordogne. She was scuttled at Brest in the Fall of France on 18 June 1940.

References

  1. ^ Le Masson 1969, pp. 80, 82.
  2. ^ Helder, Kees (17 January 2007). "San Isidoro". Helder Line. Kees Helder. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
  3. ^ Le Masson 1969, p. 82.
  4. "SS San Isidoro (1914)". www.tynebuiltships.co.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  5. ^ Le Masson 1969, p. 80.

Sources

  • Le Masson, Henri (1969). The French Navy. Navies of the Second World War. Vol. 2. London: MacDonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. pp. 80–82. ISBN 9780356023847.
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