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Osage - (1913-1914)
Drawing by Karl-Heinz Schwadtke.

Additional Info by Starke & Schell Registers :

OSAGE - 1913       GE      1Q (aft)     (9)
4,973 GRT for Deutsch-Amerik. Petroleum Ges., Hamburg        380.0 x 52.8
Tanker build by Palmers' SB. & Iron Co., Ltd., Newcastle     (6)     #826
At Tampico, August 1914,  transferred
1914 - BATON ROUGE   Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), New York     USA       212880
1925 - OLTERRA   European Shipping Co., Ltd. (B. Rappoport), London    BR     148552
1927 - British Oil Shipping Co., Ltd. (A. A. Rapp), London
1930 - Andrea Zanchi. Genoa      IT      1658
At Algeciras 10 June 1940,  subsequently sabotaged and sunk in shallow water by British commandos,
used as a base for Italian midget submarine attacks on British shipping at Gibraltar.
1947c - EMMA    s/o  (probably not officially registered)
1948c - OLTERRA   s/o     /  51- Ditta Andrea Zanchi, Genoa
Broken up at Savona 1961 by Ilva, S.p.A., arr. 9.1.61.