MV Daronia
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MV Daronia was a 1930s British oil tanker owned by Anglo-Saxon Petroleum, a British subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell. She was launched in 1938 by Hawthorn, Leslie in North East England and completed in 1939. She was one of a class of 20 similar tankers built for Anglo-Saxon.
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Name | Daronia |
Namesake | Daronia, a genus of extinct gastropods of the family Turbinidae |
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Port of registry | London |
Builder | Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Hebburn |
Yard number | 617 |
Launched | 19 December 1938 |
Completed | February 1939 |
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Fate | Scrapped November 1960 |
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Class and type | D-class oil tanker |
Tonnage | 8,139 GRT, 4,784 NRT, 12,000 DWT |
Length | 465.3 ft (141.8 m) |
Beam | 59.3 ft (18.1 m) |
Draught | 26 ft 6+1ā2 in (8.09 m) |
Depth | 33.8 ft (10.3 m) |
Installed power | 502 NHP |
Propulsion | diesel |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h) |
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In 1944 Daronia survived being hit by two German torpedoes, and in 1958 she survived being hit by a bomb in an air raid by the CIA. Shell withdrew Daronia from service in 1960 and she was scrapped in November of that year.