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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Comanchee (2) - (1936-1950)
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![]() ![]() Renamed in 1952 as "Esso Plymouth". Sold for scrap in 1962.
"Comanchee" at Liverpool.
"Comanchee" same place, same date.
![]() "Comanchee".
![]() She was delivered to her owners, the Anglo-American Oil Company, by John Brown & Company, early in 1936.
![]() ![]() ![]() newly-launched tanker Comanche, 10,310 tons deadweight, from drifting into the giant liner. The Comanche, 445 feet long, has
been designed for carrying lubricating oil in bulk. Special ballast tanks were provided to hold 3,000 tons of ballast water,
apart from the cargo tanks.
The Miramar Ship Index for "COMANCHEE"
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![]() Subsequent History:
1950 ESSO PLYMOUTH
Disposal Data:
Scrapped at Grimstad 13.08.1962.
History :
![]() Additional Info by Starke & Schell Registers :
COMANCHEE - 1936, BR, 1M (aft), (12)
6,837 GRT for Anglo-American Oil Co., Ltd., Glasgow, 450.2 x 61.2
Tanker built by J. Brown & Co., Ltd., Clydebank, Glasgow, (3), #544, 164067
1950 - ESSO PLYMOUTH, Esso Petroleum Co., Ltd., Glasgow
Broken up at Grimstad 1962 by Norsk Skipsopphugnings Co., arrived 13.08.1962.
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