Bob,
Here's a little information on the San Fabian
San Fabian (1), built by Armstrong Whitworth & Co., Low Walker, Newcastle. Yard No. 913, Official No, 146560. Launched 18/10/1921 and commissioned in May 1922. 3,000 H.P. Steam Turbine giving 10 knots, LOA 169.4m, Beam 21.2m. 13031 Gross tons.
1922-1942 for Eagle Oil Transport Company Ltd.
Sunk 27/09/1942, torpedoed by U-511, 120 Nm SE of Guantanamo, at position 18°05.4'N, 74°22.8'W . On passage from Curacao to Key West and UK, loaded with 18000 tons of Fuel-oil. 27 lost, 33 survivors. Survivors picked up by the USS Lea (DD 118) and the American patrol craft USS PC-38, landed at Guantanamo Bay.
Check Helderline for a picture of her, and many more.
http://www.helderline.nl/tankers/1104/San+Fabian+(1)/
The Eagle Oil Transport Co. Ltd., London was the shipping company set up by Weetman Pearson, in 1912, to export crude oil for it's parent, Mexican Eagle Petroleum Company "El Aguila". At the same time he set up an an oil export company, Anglo Mexican Petroleum Company Ltd..
Shell purchased the controlling interest in the Mexican Eagle Petroleum Company on 02/04/1919, including Eagle Oil Transport Co. Ltd.
In 1938, Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas nationalized the seventeen foreign-owned oil companies, including the Mexican Eagle Petroleum Company, and created Petróleos Mexicanos, PEMEX.
Shell retained the shipping compant, Eagle Oil as it was British registered, and finally merged with Shell Tankers (UK) Ltd., London in 1959.