SS Las Choapas

The SS Las Choapas was an oil tanker built in 1898. She was originally commissioned by Standard Oil of New Jersey and built by the Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works of Chester, PA. As the SS Atlas she saw service in World War I before being sold in the 1920s to the Italian company Ditta G.M. Barbagelata, of Genoa.

History
Name:
  • Atlas (1898–?)
  • Las Choapas (1941–192)
Owner:
  • Standard Oil of New Jersey (1898-?)
  • Ditta G.M. Barbagelata, Genoa (?–1941)
  • Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Tampico (1941–1942)
Port of registry: Tampico (1941–1942)
Builder: Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding & Engine Works, Chester PA
Launched: 17 November 1898
Completed: December 1898
Fate: Torpedoed and sunk on 27 June 1942
General characteristics
Class and type: Steam tanker
Tonnage: 2,005 GRT

She was seized while docked at Tampico, in Mexico on 8 December 1941 by the Mexican government and renamed, to be operated by Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), and homeported in Tampico.

On the afternoon of 27 June 1942, Las Choapas was hit by a single torpedo from German submarine U-129 and sank in flames east of Tecolutla, Veracruz.[1]

Notes
  1. "Las Choapas". Uboat.net. Retrieved 22 September 2015.

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