SS Georgia

Profile of the SS Georgia
History
Name:	SS Georgia
Owner:	M.V. Dutch Tanker & Oil Company Ltd., Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ordered:	1907
Builder:	Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, Virginia
Launched:	1908
Maiden voyage:	18 July 1908
Homeport:	Rotterdam
Fate:	Wrecked, 20–21 November 1927
General characteristics
Type:	Oil tanker
Tonnage:	5,111 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	386 ft (118 m) o/a
Beam:	51 ft (16 m)
Depth:	29 ft (8.8 m)
Propulsion:	3-cylinder triple-expansion engine, single screw
Crew:	31 (when lost)

SS Georgia was an oil tanker lost at Haisborough Sands off the coast of Norfolk, England in November 1927.

The ship began as hull No. 82 in the shipyard of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Newport News, Virginia in the United States of America. She was ordered in 1907 by the Texas Co. Inc. of Port Arthur, Texas, U.S.A.

She was first given the name Texas. She was delivered on 18 July 1908 and she successfully made her maiden voyage without incident. She was soon renamed and became the SS Georgia.

In February 1918, while owned by the Texas Oil Company (Texaco) of New York City, the ship was inspected for possible United States Navy service and assigned the registry ID 2316. Though the Navy ordered her acquisition, this action was cancelled shortly before 11 November 1918 Armistice brought World War I's fighting to an end, and she remained in commercial service. In 1922 it was reported that the ship's name had been changed to SS Texaco.

She then passed into new ownership and was again renamed back to SS Georgia. Her new owners were the M.V. Dutch Tanker & Oil Company Ltd., of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Her home port was now Rotterdam.

In September 1927 Georgia was at the port of Abadan in the Khuzestan province in south western Iran (Persia). Here she took on a cargo of crude oil and she set off on her voyage bound for the oil refinery at the port of Grangemouth, Scotland.