![]() Front page of the Carson City Daily Appeal, May 3, 1915
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Name | Gulflight |
Owner | Gulf Refining Company |
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Builder | New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, NJ |
Yard number | 156[3] |
Laid down | 16 March 1914[2] |
Launched | 8 August 1914[2] |
Identification |
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Fate | Sold |
History | |
Name | Nantucket Chief |
Owner | Nantucket Chief SS Co Inc |
Port of registry | ![]() |
In service | 1937 |
Fate | Sold |
History | |
Name | Refast |
Owner | Harris & Dixon Ltd |
Port of registry | ![]() |
In service | 22 April 1938 |
Identification |
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Fate | Sunk 26 January 1942 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | oil tanker |
Tonnage | 5,189 GRT, 3,202 NRT |
Length | 383.0 ft (116.7 m) registered |
Beam | 51.2 ft (15.6 m) |
Depth | 30.1 ft (9.2 m) |
Decks | 2 |
Installed power | 543 NHP |
Propulsion |
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Crew | 30 |
Gulflight was an American 5,189 GRT oil tanker built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation of Camden, New Jersey for the Gulf Refining Company (a predecessor of Gulf Oil).[4] It was launched on 8 August 1914. The ship became famous when it was torpedoed early in World War I and became the center of a diplomatic incident which moved the United States closer to war with Germany. The ship survived the attack but was eventually sunk in 1942 by torpedo attack in World War II.
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