Potrero del Llano

Potrero Del Llano turned into an oil tanker constructed in 1912. She sailed for some of organizations, and survived provider inside the First World War, simplest to be torpedoed and sunk by means of a German U-boat at some point of the Second World War at the same time as cursing below the Mexican flag off the coast of Florida. Her sinking contributed to Mexico's decision to go into the conflict on the facet of the Allies. Potrero Del Llano was initially constructed with the aid of Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Hebburn-on-Tyne as the F.A. Tamplin, for carrier with T.W. Tamplin & Co., of London.

She changed into offered in 1921 to the Belgian organization SA d Armement, d Industrie & de Commerce, of Antwerp, and become renamed Arminco, and changed into offered once more in 1930 to the Italian agency Società Italiana Transporti Petroliferi of Genoa, and changed into renamed Lucifero. She changed into interned while docked at Tampico, in Mexico on 10 June 1940 and was seized on eight December 1941 by the Mexican government and renamed Potrero Del Llano after a city in Veracruz. She become operated by means of Petroleos Mexicanos and changed into homeported in Tampico.