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Valera - (1943-1944)
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Name: VALERA
Built Year: 1943.
Builder: Barnes-Duluth, Duluth, Canada. Yard No: 19
Keel: Launch Date: 31.7.43 Date of completion: 10.43
Type: Tanker, Tons: 3401 DWT: 5572
LBP: 108.2 meter, Beam: 18.3 meter
Number of screws/Machinery/Speed (kn) : 2 Triple - ?
Owner as Completed: Creole Petroleum Corp, Panama Flag: PA
Lost after being torpedoed, see below.
Additional information from Uboat.net:
Name: Valera
Type: Steam tanker
Tonnage: 3.401 tons
Completed: 1943 - Walter Butler Shipbuilders Inc, Duluth MN
Owner: Lago Petroleum Co, Panama
Homeport: Panama
Date of attack: 7 March, 1944
Nationality: Panaman
Fate: Sunk by U-518 (Hans-Werner Offermann)
Position: 11.30N, 76.27W - Grid EC 7470
- See location on a map -
Complement: 35 (1 dead and 34 survivors).
Convoy: -
Route: Aruba - Cristobal
Cargo: 35.000 barrels of heavy boiler navy fuel oil
History: Completed in October 1943
Notes on loss:
At 01.40 hours on 7 March, 1944, the unescorted Valera was torpedoed and sunk by U-518 off Barranquilla,
Columbia. The master was lost. The survivors drifted several days before being picked up by a US Coast Guard
vessel and taken to Panama.