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Saxoléine - (1899-1929)
 
"Saxoléine" a steam tanker of 3557 BRT, build in 1899, sailed under the British flag, untill her demolition in 1929.
"Saxoléine"
(Photo thanks to Jérôme Billard)
"Saxoléine".
( Illustration by M. Mélissent.)
 
"Saxoléine".
A not very sharp and small photo of the "Saxoléine".
 
"Saxoléine".

The Miramar Ship Index for "SAXOLEINE"
IDNo:
1110345
Year:
1899
Name:
SAXOLEINE
Keel:
Type:
Tanker
Launch Date:
06.09.1899
Flag:
GBR
Date of completion:
10.1899

Ton:
3757
Link:
-
DWT:
Yard No:
693
Length overall:
Ship Design:
LPP:
102.3
Country of build:
GBR
Beam:
13.7
Builder:
Armstrong Whitworth
Material of build:
Location of yard:
Low Walker
Number of screws/Mchy/Speed(kn):
1T-11

Subsequent History:
1928 CELENO - 1943 CLAUDIA - 1944 ELBING -
1945 GROZNY - 1965 RUTH

Disposal Data:
Scrapped at Hamburg 14.04.1966.

History :
ON
LR/IMO
ID
Year
Name
Tons
Change
Registered Owner
110345
1110345
1899
SAXOLEINE
3757
Hunting & Son
1544
1110345
1899
CELENO
3757
1928
Cisterne Italiane
1110345
1899
CLAUDIA
3757
1943
German Govt.
1110345
1899
ELBING
3757
1944
German Govt.
1110345
1899
GROZNYI
3757
1944
USSR
1110345
1899
RUTH
3757
1965
P. Christensen

Additional Info by Starke & Schell Registers :

SAXOLEINE- 1899    BR,   1T (aft)     (11*)
3,757 GRT for Saxoleine SS. Co., Ltd. (Hunting & Son), Newcastle,   335.7 x 45.0
Tanker built by Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Ltd., Newcastle   (10),   #693,  110345
1927 - Northern Petroleum Tank SS. Co., Ltd. (s/m)
1928 - CELENO   Soc. Anon. di Nav. "Cisterne Italiane", Genoa,  IT, 1544
1938 - Cisterne Italiana Soliani & Saltamerenda, Genoa
in Black Sea, June 1940, subsequently in German charter
9/1943 - seized by Germans
1943c - CLAUDIA    German Government, GE
4/1944 - ELBING, s/o
1944 - transferred to Bulgaria,  subsequently seized by U.S.S.R. 30 Aug 1944 as prize
1944 - GROZNYI Chernomorskoye gosudarstvyennoye morskoye parokhodstvo, Odessa,  RU
1964 - Chernomorskoye morskoye parokhodstvo, Odessa
1965 - RUTH  Paul Christensen, Nakskov  (for delivery), DE
Broken up at Hamburg 1966 by Eckhardt & Co.,
arrived 14.04.1966.