The ship portrait shows the tanker of the 'german-american petroleum company', hamburg. With the flag of usa, shipping company r and of germany. The ship, built in 1903 by palmers shipbuilding & iron co. , yarrow and registered on april 1, 1905, was also on the hamburg-new york route like its sister ship phoebus. Interned in new york in 1914 and sold to standard oil co, of new jersey, bayonne, where it was renamed cushing, and registered as chinampa for the us navy from 1918. In 1919 the tanker was returned to the hamburg shipping company, which sold it to genoa in 1924/25, where it was registered as americano. Seized in 1940/41 in tampico, mexico and used as tuxpam for petroleos mexicanos from tampico. Torpedoed and sunk on the way from veracruz to tampico by the german submarine u-129 under captain hans-ludwig witt, 8 dead and 31 survivors. - see "auke visser's german esso tanker's site". Object Type: painting. Genre: marine art. Date: 1906. Dimensions: height: 88 cm (34.6 in) ; width: 150 cm (59 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Alfred Jensen - Hamburger Tanker "Prometheus" passiert Feuerschiff "Elbe 2" (1906)
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