| History | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Name | Desabla |
| Owner | Bank Line Ltd., Glasgow |
| Operator | Andrew Weir Shipping & Trading Co. Ltd. |
| Port of registry |  Glasgow |
| Builder | Hawthorn Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| Yard number | 461 |
| Launched | 18 Sept 1913 |
| Out of service | 12 June 1915 |
| Identification |
|
| Fate | Sunk by SM U-17 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Oil Tanker |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 420.3 ft (128.11 m) |
| Beam | 54.6 ft (16.64 m) |
| Depth | 32.4 ft (9.88 m) |
| Crew | 35 |
The SS Desabla was built by Hawthorn Leslie & Co. Ltd at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1913 for Bank Line, Glasgow (Andrew Weir Shipping & Trading Co. Ltd). She was the first oil tanker to join the Bank Line fleet and was chartered and operated for approximately one year by General Petroleum Company along the Pacific coast of the United States, Chile and Canada. In 1914 she was re-chartered to the British Government to transport oil from Texas to the United Kingdom. In 1915 she was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-17 off the coast of Scotland.[1]
- ^ "Oil Ship Desabla Sunk" (PDF). The New York Times. 18 June 1915.