SS Juvenal

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Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina
NameJuvenal
Namesake Juvenal
Owner
  • Cia General de Combustibles (1928–68)
  • Transmaritima del Plata Cia de Nav SAC (1968–72)
Port of registry Buenos Aires
Builder Cantiere Navale Triestino
Yard number200
Launched3 June 1928
CompletedAugust 1928
Identification
FateScrapped 1972
General characteristics
Type oil tanker
Tonnage
  • 13,247  GRT (until 1933)
  • 13,896  GRT (from 1934)
  • tonnage under deck 12,331 (until 1933)
  • 7,934  NRT (until 1933)
  • 7,920  NRT (from 1934)
  • 18,425  DWT
Length556.0 ft (169.5 m)
Beam74.1 ft (22.6 m)
Draught29 ft 2 in (8.89 m)
Depth40.3 ft (12.3 m)
Installed power1,167 NHP
Propulsion
Sensors and
processing systems
NotesLargest merchant ship on the Argentinian registry when built

SS Juvenal was an oil tanker that was built in Italy in 1928 and registered in Argentina. When built she was the largest ship in the Argentinian registry.

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Building

Cantiere Navale Triestino built Juvenal in Monfalcone, near Trieste, Italy, launching her on 3 June 1928 [1] and completing her in August. She was 556.0 ft (169.5 m) long, had a beam of 74.1 ft (22.6 m) and a draught of 29 ft 2 in (8.89 m). As built her tonnages were 13,247  GRT and 7,934  NRT. [2]

Juvenal was only slightly smaller than the tanker C.O. Stillman, which was then the largest in the World and had been completed in Bremen that February.

Juvenal had 15 corrugated furnaces that heated five boilers with a combined heating surface of 17,735 square feet (1,648 m2). They supplied steam at 200 lbf/in2 to a pair of triple expansion engines built by the North East Marine Engineering Co Ltd of Sunderland, England. Between them the engines developed a total of 1,167 NHP and propelled her by twin screws. [2]

Career

Juvenal was built for the Compañia General de Combustibles, who owned her until 1968. [1]

In 1932 Juvenal was assigned the code letters NSOP. [2] In 1934 these were superseded by the call sign LOFU. Also in 1934 the ship was fitted with wireless direction finding equipment and an echo sounding device, and her tonnages were revised slightly to 13,896  GRT and 7,920  NRT. [3] The echo sounder seems to have been removed in 1935. [4] In 1936 Juvenal was still Argentina's largest merchant ship. [5]

In the Second World War off the northern coast of Brazil Juvenal rescued a survivor from Bank Line's 5,154  GRT cargo ship Oakbank, which U-507 had sunk by torpedo on 27 December 1942. Juvenal was bound for Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles, where she put the survivor ashore on 8 January. [6]

In 1968 Juvenal's ownership passed to the Transmaritima del Plata Compañia de Naviera SAC. She was scrapped in December 1972. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Juvenal (7177901)" . Miramar Ship Index . Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 Lloyd's Register, Steamers and Motor Ships (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1932. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  3. Lloyd's Register, Steamers and Motor Ships (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1934. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  4. Lloyd's Register, Steamers and Motor Ships (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1935. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  5. Talbot-Booth 1936, p. 327.
  6. Helgason, Guðmundur. "Oakbank". uboat.net. Retrieved 14 October 2020.

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