M/T Uranus

M/T Uranus (SEVT)

Registration number: 8502

Built at Kockum Shipyard as new construction, hull number 249 for a price of 5,5 million SEK. She was delivered new year’s eve 1941. Uranus was equipped with one Kockum Man D8Z60/110 delivering 5.500 i.h.p. Uranus was laid up until autumn 1943 then she got in safe-conduct traffic. 1944 she was damaged in a minefield in Skagerack, and she was repaired. She was sold to Lampas Skibs A/S, Oslo, Norway in October 1949 for 9 million SEK. and she was renamed to Fenheim. 1962 scrapped in Barcelorna, Spain. She weighed 16.440 Dw.tons and had a speed at 13 knots. Uranus first commander was C. H.Tydén and chief engineer A.W. Jönsson.