| Also known as | Ole Wegger |
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| IMO number | 1136639 |
| Call sign | JDVQ |
| Construction number | 935 |
| Tonnage | 12.097 ton |
| Beam | 20m |
| Length overall | 159m |
| Year of construction | 1914 |
| Year of renaming/broken up | 1947 |
| Service for Shell | 1914 to 1928 |
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SAN LORENZO
Anecdotes
| Date | Visitor | Anecdote |
|---|---|---|
| 11/11/2017 - 15:32 | Jane Bevis |
My Great Uncle Joseph Victor Wilde was 5th Engineer on the SS San Lorenzo in 1920/21. He was born in Gateshead, Co Durham and grew up close to the Swan Hunter shipyard where she was built. His younger brother Thomas Edward, my grandfather, served his apprenticeship as a draughtsman at the shipyard. I never knew my great uncle as after a family row he went back off to sea, settled in Australia, and had no more contact with the family. |
| 12/31/2016 - 09:23 | Desmond Doyle |
San Lorenzo (1914-28). 3/6/17 Torpedoed off NW Ireland, towed in and repaired. 1917 Tonnage openings closed and thereafter the tonnages were 12097 get. 1928 Sold to A/S Oran, Norway and renamed Ole Wegger and converted into a Whale factory ship. 14/1/41 - Captured in the Antarctic, by the German raider Pinguin and taken to Bordeaux by a German prize. Sunk by the Germans as a block ship at Rouen. Salvaged and towed to the UK after the War and in 1947 sold to Swedish ship breakers at Gothenburg. |
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