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Standard-Vacuum Transportation Co., Ltd.
Winamac (I) - (1933-1934)
No photo available, anyone ??

Additional Information from the Starke & Schell Ships-registers ;

PULPIT POINT - 1926   BR   1T (aft)     (11)
     8,621 GRT for Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., London      460.0 x 62.8
         Tanker built by Lithgows, Ltd., Port Glasgow     (10)     #792   149732
1933 - Standard Transportation Co., Ltd., Hong Kong
1934 - WINAMAC    s/o
1941 - Socony-Vacuum Transportation Co., Ltd., London
Torp. and sunk by U 66, 31 Aug 1942, in 10.36N-54.34W, voy. Trinidad - St. Michaels, Azores, fuel oil

Additional information from Uboat.net :

Name: Winamac
Type: Steam tanker
Tonnage: 8.621 tons
Completed: 1926
Owner: Socony Vacuum Transportation Co Ltd, Montreal
Homeport: London
Date of attack: 31 Aug, 1942
Nationality: British
Fate: Sunk by U-66 (Friedrich Markworth)
Position: 10.36N, 54.34W - Grid EE 9590
- See location on a map -
Complement: ? men (? dead and ? survivors).
Convoy: -
Route: -
Cargo: -
History: -
Notes on loss: -