| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| The Shipping Controller - mng Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. Ltd., London |
London |
11/12/1917 |
| Other names |
| 1919 MILAZZO - 1924 ALDERSGATE - 1925 MISTLEY HALL - 1934 KUTAIS - 1935 DNEPROSTROY/DNEPROSTROI - 1938 ASHKHABAD |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1919 Società Italiana di Navigazione Transoceanica, Naples - reg Naples
1922 Navigazione Generale Italiana, Naples
1924 City Gate Line Ltd - mng H W Dillon & Sons Ltd (Richards H Dillon), London - reg London
1926 Charles G Dunn Shipping Co Ltd - mng John R Dunn, Liverpool - reg Liverpool
1934 Sovtorgflot, Moscow - mng Black Sea Shipping Co, Odessa - reg Odessa
1940 mng Far East State Sea Shipping Company, Vladivostok |
| Vessel history |
Type 'A' cargo ship, completed as a tanker with cylindrical tanks in her holds. Served as a Royal Fleet Auxiliary
1919 converted to dry cargo, c8175dwt.
1924 5256grt 3148nrt; 1925 5288grt 3193nrt; 1926 5284grt 3164nrt |
| Remarks |
| Launched from slip A. |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1942 |
Torpedoed 30/04/1942 |
| Disposal Detail |
30/04/1942 torpedoed twice by U-402 in 34.21N 76.24W, and sank by the stern in the shallow water off Cape Lookout (New York for Matanzas in ballast). U-402's attempts to fully sink her with the deck gun were resisted by defensive gunfire. After the crew were rescued by US Coast Guard, ASHKHABAD remained afloat in a waterlogged condition and later salvage was intended. This was unknown to USS SEMMES (DD-189) and HM Trawler ST ZENO which set her on fire by gunfire on 03/05/1942. The wreck later sank in deeper water.
The wreck is a recognised dive site. |
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