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Other name(s): Venus

Ship owner: Cleveland Tankers, Inc.; Lake Tankers Corp.; National Marine Service Inc.

Ship builder: American Ship Building Co., Lorain, Ohio

Engine builder: Werkspoor, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Engine re-builder: General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Year ship built: 1928

Year engine built: 1928

Final disposition: Scrapped at Ashtabula, Ohio in 1975

Notes:

Second set of engines reconditioned and installed, 1954, 16 cylinders each, 10.5 inch stroke and 8.5 inch diameters.

Exploded twice as Venus

Remarks:

Names:

b) Venus

Owners:

1) Lake Tankers Corp., Chicago, Illinois

2) National Marine Service Inc., New York, New York (1958)

3) Cleveland Tankers, Inc. (1967)

Registry number: US. 227895

Hull number: 803

Vessel type: Tanker

Height: 18.6

Width: 51

Length: 334

Stroke length: 35

Gross tonnage: 2395

Net tonnage: 1994

Engine type: Diesel 12 cylinder

Piston 1: 18

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