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Name: ROMANO
Launched: 03/12/1910
Completed: 1910
Builder: Hepple & Co Ltd, South Shields
Yard Number: 609
Dimensions: 96grt, 15nrt, 80.4 x 17.9 x 9.0ft
Engines: C2cyl (15 & 32 x 22ins), 53nhp
Engines By: Hepple & Co Ltd, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1910 A Grimwood & Co, Tampico
19XX Mexican Petroleum Co
by 1918 France & Canada SS Corp, New York; renamed SAMUEL FAUNCE
29/01/1920 Missing
Comments: Built as a subcontract from J Pollock & Sons & Co Ltd, Naval Architects, London
Pollock's contract number 265
29/01/1920: Departed Wilmington, Delaware for Key West, Florida.
Subsequently reported missing, presumed foundered