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Paula - (1894-1914)
Steam Tank Ship "Paula".
RHKB - 2834 BRT / 4350 DTW - 87,74 x 12,09 x 9.51 M - 1 Triple Expansion Steam Engine - 1200 IHP,
build by Walssend Slipway & Engineering Co., Ltd., Wallsend. On February 1888 launch.
On March 1888 build by Sir W.G. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co., Low Walker ( No. 511 ) as "Paula" for
H. G. C. Renck & A. Sanders & Co., Hamburg. Registered 23.3.1888 till 21.7.1888.
8.3.1889 taken over by AG Tank-Dampfschiffahrts Gesselschaft, Hamburg.
On 8.3.1889, Boiler installation renewed by Blohm & Voss.
On 13.12.1894 sold to the Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Gesellschaft, Hamburg. Not renamed.
On 23.9.1914 sold to the Standard Oil Co., of New Jersey, New York renamed "Wiko".
On 1923 sold to Wico Steamship Co., New York and renamed "Llewellyn Howland".
In 1923 sold to the Danlan Steamship Co., New York.
On the voyage from Fall River to Portland/Me stranded on the Brentons Reef East of Newport.
Half model of the hull of the "Minster Maybach" and "Paula".
( Photo thanks to Peter Burrow )