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| Samoset: The Samoset was a 5,521 GRT Tanker originally built as the Cadillac at Napier & Miller, Ltd., Glasgow (Yard No. 163 at Old Kilpatrick) for Anglo-American Oil Co., Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland. She was launched 07 November 1908 and completed in January of 1909. The ship was 117.4 meters in length, 15.8 meters in beam, with triple-expansion engine and single propeller.
About Anglo-American Oil Co., Ltd., it was the first foreign affiliate of John D Rockefeller's US company the Standard Oil Trust. In 1934 this came to be called "SO" or as it is more commonly known as: "ESSO". Eventually becoming EXXON in 1972.
The Cadillac was sold to the Tank Storage & Carriage Co., Glasgow in 1912, renamed Samoset in 1914, and then sold again to Standard Transportation Co., Hong Kong in 1916. Possible picture of the "Cadillac"
On 20 March 1918, while on the Port Said-Brindisi route with a cargo of fuel oil, the Samoset was attacked by German submarine U-33 (Hellmuth von Doemming) without warning and sunk approximately 50 miles North-by-Northeast-by-3/4 East from Port Said with the loss of 3 personnel.
References: Miramar Single Ship Report for 1128244 http://www.uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/5372.html http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=8339 http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/WWI%20LOSSES-S.htm http://www.naval-history.net/WW1oMSLosses1918.htm http://www.exxonmobil.co.uk/UK-English/Operations/UK_OP_History_Esso.asp |
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