MV C.O. Stillman

P1

IMO 1160498

Miramar Ship Index, accessed on 11 May 2009

The COStillman was a tanker of the International Petroleum Company Ltd., which was taken in 1928 in the operation. She was from 1928 until the fall of 1942, the largest oil tanker world.

History

On 1 February 1928, the Bremer Vulkan shipyard delivered the under yard number 646 from the stack overflowed on November 29, 1927 Tanker COStillman to the client, the International Petroleum Company Ltd.. in Toronto, from. The 171 m long building was at the time considered the largest tanker in the world and was the first built by volcanic motor tanker. Named was propelled initially under the British flag ship after the financier and president of the National City Bank of New York, James Stillman ( 1850-1918 ).

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On June 6, 1942, the C.O. Stillman with 47 crew members, eight armed guards and three over workers from other tankers under the leadership of Captain Daniel H. Larsen traveling with a cargo of 125,812 barrels of oil and 39 tons of cargo from Aruba to New York. About 60 nautical miles southwest of Puerto Rico was the uneskortierte tanker at 03:07 clock on the starboard side, aft of his midship superstructure, torpedoed by the German submarine U 68 under the command of Karl -Friedrich Merten. The deck house began at its aft end to burn, and the machine stopped and started by two lifeboats and four life rafts with leaving the ship. About 20 minutes later, the COStillman to starboard was made before his engine room by a second torpedo. Debris and oil rained down on deck and the rest remaining sailors jumped overboard and swam to the life rafts, while the tanker sank within minutes, with three man crew died.

Just before sunset on June 7, 22 sailors and three armed guards were taken on the four life rafts from the boat 83310 U.S. Coast Guard on board, which had been informed by a military aircraft. On June 8, the survivors went to Ponce (Puerto Rico) on land and have been associated with the American steamer Seminole returned to the United States. The two lifeboats drove until sunset of June 6 and then sailed towards the Dominican Republic. The boat landed with 17 survivors in the Yuma Bay and the other with 13 survivors in La Romana.