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HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD - ESSO GETTYSBURG - 1957
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Esso Gettysburg
HAER No. CA-354
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Location:
Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Benicia vicinity, Solano County, California
Type of Craft:
Product tanker
Trade:
Coastal and Caribbean Sea shipping
MARAD Design No.
Stm/39K
Builder’s Hull No.
519
Official Registry No.
273362
IMO No.
5107463
Principal Measurements:
Length (bp): 685'
Length (oa): 715'
Beam (molded): 93'
Designed operating draft: 35'-2"
Summer freeboard draft: 36'-9.25"
Displacement: 51,549 long tons
Deadweight: 37,800 long tons
Gross registered tonnage: 24,543
Net registered tonnage: 15,141
Maximum continuous
shaft horsepower: 26,500
Service speed: 19 knots

The listed dimensions are as-built, but it should be noted that draft, displacement, and tonnages are subject to alter-ation over time as well as variations in measurement.)
Propulsion:
Geared steam turbines
Dates of Construction:
Keel laying: April 23, 1956
Launching: October 11, 1956
Delivery: March 1, 1957
Designer:
E. L. Stewart, manager, Construction and Repair Department,
Esso Shipping Company
Builder:
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va.
Original Owner:
Esso Shipping Co., Wilmington, Del.
Final Owner:
Maritime Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation