An item reported that the Saturday before a Liberian flagged tanker officially was handed over at the shipyard at Scharloo to the Columbian navy and renamed Sancho Jimeno. At 11.00 o’clock started in the presence of many interested people the speech of her commanding officer lieutenant 1st class Belarmino Vargas Mariño. She was taken over from the C.S.M.(1)
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1. http://maritime-connector.com/ship/sancho-jimeno-5310591/ mentioned a tanker Sancho Jimeno build in 1951 at the shipyard of St. John’s River Shipbuilding at Jacksonville, USA,with a deadweight of 4.384 tons and a gross tonnage of 2.916 tons, IMO no. 5310591, last known flagged as Colombian and ex-Kiamichi, White Castle and again Kiamichi although there former names were not confirmed. The magnificent website of Auke Visser http://www.aukevisser.nl/t2tanker/id847.htm supplies much more details. Her keel was laid down as part of the Klickitat-class gasoline tankers at the shipyard of St. Johns River Shipbuilding under the contract no. MC hull 2633. The shipyard was ordered by the Maritime Commission to deliver a T1-Mt-BT1 hull named White Castle. As the AOG-73 Kiamichi loan chartered was the final acquirement by the navy in 1945 cancelled and an incomplete hull was delivered to the Maritime Commission after her launching on 29 August. Two years later was she on 16 July leased to the shipping company International Tankers of Panama to be used for commercial purposes. In 1951 was she renamed Transmere and in 1953 sold to Colombia where she was commissioned as the ARC Sancho Jimeno (BT-63) and in 1974 finally broken up. With a displacement of 1.980-4.335 tons were her dimensions 325’2” x 48’6” x 15’8” and her cargo capacity 3.790 tons deadweight. She was able to carry 10.465 lobs of oil. The armament consisted of mounts for 1-3”gun, 2x1-4cm anti aircraft guns and 3x1-2cm anti aircraft guns.
