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Cheyenne (2) - (1930-1939)
See also : Shipping Movements SS "CHEYENNE", during WW2 & German Records off the Attack on the MS "Cheyenne (2)"
The second "Cheyenne" was build in 1930 but torpedoed in 1939, and sunk after gunfire.
"Cheyenne".
The Miramar Ship Index for "CHEYENNE"
IDNo:
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1161559
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Year:
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1930
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Name:
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CHEYENNE
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Keel:
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Type:
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Tanker
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Launch Date:
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22.08.1930
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Flag:
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GBR
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Date of completion:
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11.1930
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Tons:
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8825
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Link:
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-
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DWT:
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Yard No:
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1001
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Length overall:
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Ship Design:
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LPP:
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145.4
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Country of build:
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GBR
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Beam:
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19.4
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Builder:
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Palmers'
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Material of build:
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Location of yard:
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Jarrow
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Number of screws/Mchy/Speed(kn):
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1D-
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Subsequent History:
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Disposal Data:
Torpedoed & Shelled and sunk by (U-53) 50.20 N / 13.30 W on 15.09.1939 [ Voyage Aruba-Swansea, motor spirit ]
History:
ON
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LR/IMO
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ID
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Year
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Name
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Tons
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Change
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Registered Owner
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161559
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1161559
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1930
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CHEYENNE
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8825
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Anglo-American Oil Co Ltd.
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Additional Information from the Starke & Schell Ships-registers ;
CHEYENNE - 1930 BR 1M (aft)
8,825 grt for Anglo-American Oil Co., Ltd., Newcastle 477.0 x 63.8
Tanker built by Palmers' SB. & Iron Co., Ltd., Newcastle (11) #1001 161559
Torpedoed and shelled by U 53, 15 Sep 1939, in 50.20 N - 13.30 W, floating wreck sunk by
HM destroyer, voyage Aruba - Swansea, motor spirit
CHEYENNE - 1939
Code letters: GTRL Official Number: 161559
Rigging: steel single screw motor tanker; 1 deck & 2nd deck clear of cargo tanks; web frames;
7 partly cemented bulkheads; cellular double bottom under engine 51 feet, 151 tons;
Deep Tank forward 41 feet, 616 tons; Forward Peak Tank 276 tons; Aft Peak Tank 48 tons
Tonnage: 8,825 tons gross, 8,084 under deck and 5,267 net
Dimensions: 477 feet long, 63.8 foot beam and holds 34.8 feet deep; Poop 105 feet;
Bridge 27 feet; Forecastle 41 feet
Construction: 1930, Palmers' Co. Ltd., Newcastle
Propulsion: 2-stroke, single acting oil engine with 4 cylinders of 25 3/16 inches diameter each;
stroke 97 5/8 inches; 785 nominal horsepower; 2 double ended boilers;
engine by W. Doxford & Sons Ltd., Sunderland
Owners: Anglo-American Oil Co. Ltd. (F.J. Wolfe, manager)
Port of registry: Newcastle
Additional Information from U-Boatnet :
Name: Cheyenne
Type: Motor tanker
Tonnage: 8.825 tons
Completed: 1930 - Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow and Hebburn-on-Tyne
Owner: Anglo-American Oil Co Ltd, London
Homeport: London
Date of attack: 15 Sep, 1939
Nationality: British
Fate: Sunk by U-53 (Ernst-Günter Heinicke)
Position: 50.20N, 13.30W - Grid BE 3261
- See location on a map -
Complement: 43 (6 dead and 37 survivors).
Convoy: -
Route: Aruba - Swansea
Cargo: 12.600 tons of benzine
History: -
Notes on loss: At 15.44 hours on 15 Sep, 1939, the unescorted Cheyenne (Master Hugh Kerr) was torpedoed and damaged by
gunfire by U-53 southwest of Ireland. Distress signals from the tanker led a British destroyer and the Norwegian motor merchant Ida
Bakke (Master Anton Zakariassen) to the scene. The destroyer chased away the U-boat and later sank the abandoned tanker, which
broke in two after being torpedoed. Six crew members were lost. The master and 36 crew members were picked up by the Norwegian
ship and subsequently landed at Baltimore, Co. Cork near Fastnet Light.
The previous day, the Ida Bakke had rescued all survivors of the British Influence, which had been sunk by U-29.