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Fallen Timbers
T2-SE-A1
Aerial port side view of the American tanker "Fallen Timbers". Note the 5 inch gun mounted aft and the 3 inch gun in the bow.
She also carries 8 20 mm Oerlikons AA guns, 4 each in the superstructure amidships and aft.
"Fallen Timbers" during the war, outbounde, June 8th, 1944.(Photo US Coast Guard)
"Fallen Timbers", at the end of WW2, source, location and date unknown.
"Buccinum", ex. "Fallen Timbers". location and date unknown.
( Photot thanks to Jan Tore Knudsen )
"Massiminociro D.", ex. "Buccinum", ex. "Fallen Timbers", at Cape Town, South Africa, date unknown.
( Copyright A. Duncan )
"Massiminociro D.", ex. "Buccinum", ex. "Fallen Timbers", location and date unknown.
( Photo Copyright Walter E. Frost )
"Massiminociro D.", ex. "Buccinum", ex. "Fallen Timbers" source, location and date unknown.
FALLEN TIMBERS, T2-SE-A1
History :
Built by The Kaiser Co., Swan Island Yard, Portland, Oregon.
Yardnumber 11. UMSC No. 803. Off. nr. 243383.
Keel laid 19-12-1942. Launched 21-04-1943. Completed 28-05-1943. Gr. 10448 t., Net. 6285 t., Dw. 16613 t. L.o.a. 159,57 m., Br. 20,78 m., Dr. 8,99 m. Engine: 2 steam turbines, manufactured by General Electric Company, Lynn, Massachussetts. 7240 B.h.p., 5401 kW. Speed 15 knots. 26 Tanks.
History:
FALLEN TIMBERS-1943 completed for United States War Shipping Administration, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
BUCCINUM-1948 for Carl Olsens Tankrederi A/S., Arendal, Norway.
MASSIMINOCIRO D.-1951 for Fratelli D’Amico, Rome, Italy.
Additional Reports:
Reported Massiminociro D. sold to shipbreakers in Italy. Arrived Trieste Dec. 1965 to be broken up, completed in May 1966.
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