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Diamant - (1892-1914)
Steam Tank Ship "Diamant".
RJPF - 3584 BRT / 5200 DTW - 100,14 x 12,80 x 9.08 M - 1 Triple Expansion Steam Engine - 1600 IHP,
build by Walssend Slipway & Engineering Co., Ltd., Wallsend. On May 1892 launch.
On July 1892 build by Sir W.G. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co., Low Walker ( No. 591 ) as "Diamant" for
Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Gesselschaft, Geestemunde.
Registered 12.7.1892 till 6.9.1892.
On 8.1914 laid up in the USA.
On 23.9.1914 handed over to the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, New York, renamed "Platuria".
15.9.1917 on the voyage from Genoa to New York in position 35.08N and 09.15 W torpedoed by the U 63 and sunken.
"Diamant" in Rotterdam 1914.
Additional Info by Starke & Schell Registers :
DIAMANT - 1892, GE, 1Triple (aft), (10)
3,445 GRT for Deutsch-Amerik. Petroleum Ges., Hamburg, 328.6 x 43.0
Tanker build by Armstrong, Mitchell & Co., Ltd., Newcastle, (7), #591
arr. New York 2 Aug 1914 from Rotterdam, subsequently transferred
1914 - PLATURIA Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), New York, USA, 212627
Torpedoed and sunk by U 63, 15 Sep 1917, off Tangier, in 35.08 N-09.15 W, voyage Genoa - New York.