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The SS "Esso Charleston" on February 13, 1944, bound from New York and Norfolk for Gibraltar and Casablanca.
Destroyer maneuvres into position alongsid fueling vessel to get an "oil transfusion", an operation in which the
"Esso Charleston" and her companion ships of the Esso fleet became adept.
The Miramar Ship Index for "ESSO CHARLESTON"
IDNo:
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2237933
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Year:
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1938
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Name:
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ESSO CHARLESTON
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Keel:
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Type:
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Tanker
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Launch Date:
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23.07.1938
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Flag:
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USA
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Date of completion:
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10.1938
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TonS:
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7949
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Link:
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-
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DWT:
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12950
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Yard No:
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4309
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Length overall:
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Ship Design:
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LPP:
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135.8
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Country of build:
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USA
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Beam:
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19.6
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Builder:
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Bethlehem
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Material of build:
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Location of yard:
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Sparrow's Point
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Number of screws/Mchy/Speed(kn):
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1ST-12
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Subsequent History:
1953 POSEIDON - 1956 YAMSOUF
Disposal Data:
Scrapped at La Spezia 01.11.1963. ( By Cantiere di Portovenere S.p.A. )
History :
ON
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LR/IMO
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ID
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Year
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Name
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Tons
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Change
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Registered Owner
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237933
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2237933
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1938
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ESSO CHARLESTON
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7949
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Standard Oil Co NJ.
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755
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2237933
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1938
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POSEIDON
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7949
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1953
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Tramp Sg & Oil Tptn.
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2237933
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1938
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YAMSOUF
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7949
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1956
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Tramp Ships
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Sisterships are R. W. Gallagher, Esso Baton Rouge, Esso Baltimore, and Esso Nashville.
| Source photo Pacific Marine Review, Volume 35, August, 1938 Recent Launchings at American Shipyards.
Esso Charleston, last of four 13,000 deadweight ton tankers building at the Sparrows Point Plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding CorporationLtd., for the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey, was launched July 23.
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Additional Info by Starke & Schell Registers :
ESSO CHARLESTON - 1938 USA 1ST (aft)(12)
7,949 GRT for Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, Wilmington, Del., 445.4 x 64.2
Tanker build by Bethlehem SB. Corp., Ltd., Sparrow's Point, Md. (10), #4309, 237933
1950 - Esso Shipping Company, Wilmington, Del.
1953 - POSEIDON, Tramp Shipping & Oil Transportation Corp., Wilmington, Del.
1956 - Pioneer Shipping Corp., Ltd., Monrovia LI 755
1956 - YAMSOUF, Tramp Ships, Ltd., Haifa IS
1959 - Cargo Ships El-Yam, Ltd., Haifa [Maritime Overseas Corp., New York]
Broken up at La Spezia 1963 by Cantiere di Portovenere S.p.A.,
arrived 01.11.1963, work began in 12.1963.
Maritime Administration Cards:
