San Jeronimo
Built by Messrs Doxford and Sons of Sunderland. It had a deadweight capacity of 15,200 tons, by far the largest ever vessel launced on the river Wear at the time (1914).
The vessel was built by order of the Eagle Oil Transport Co for the Mexican oil trade and has a length of 540ft, a breadth of 66.5 ft, and a depth of 34 ft. She was fitted with four boilers of 16 ft by 12 ft, working at pressures of around 220 lbs. The boilers were fired on the Wallsend-Howden pressure system and gave her a speed of at least 11.25 knots.
The oil cargoes are held in 12 holds divided longitudinally by an oil-tight bulk head and separated from the remainder of the vessel by copperdams. The oil-pumping installation of this and her sister ships were the largest ever fitted on oil-carrying steamers, pumping up to 1,200 tons per hour. The cargo holds were specially fitted with steam-heated coils specially adapted for dealing with heavy oil.
While at sea the San Jeronimo pumped in water ballast at the rate of 3000 tons per hour. [1]
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- ↑ Steamship Journal, March 1914