SS Empire Energy
The ship as Grete | |
| History | |
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| Name |
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| Owner |
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| Operator | 1940: ER Management Co, Ltd |
| Port of registry | |
| Builder | AG "Neptun", Rostock |
| Completed | July 1923 |
| Identification |
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| Captured | 10 June 1940 |
| Fate | Wrecked, 5 November 1941 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | cargo ship |
| Tonnage | 6,567 GRT, 4,006 NRT |
| Length | 440.0 ft (134.1 m) |
| Beam | 57.1 ft (17.4 m) |
| Draught | 25 ft 9+1⁄4 in (7.85 m) |
| Depth | 29.5 ft (9.0 m) |
| Decks | 2 |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | 1 × screw |
| Sensors & processing systems |
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SS Empire Energy was a cargo steamship. She was built in Germany in 1923 as Grete for small German tramp shipping company. In 1934 the Italian shipping magnate Achille Lauro bought her and renamed her Gabbiano.
When Italy entered the Second World War in 1940, Gabbiano was in a British port, so the Royal Navy seized her. The UK Ministry of Shipping renamed her Empire Energy, and appointed a British tramp company to manage her. In 1941 she was wrecked on the coast of Newfoundland. Her wreck remains on the shore at Cape Norman to this day.