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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Esso Belfast - (1950-1958)
![]() See also : G. Harrison Smith (1931)
"Esso Belfast" renamed in 1950, was the originally the "G. Harrison Smith" build in 1931.
She was scrapped in 1958 at La Seyne.
( Photo collection Morten Bjørndalen )
![]() "Esso Belfast".
![]() "Esso Belfast".
![]() "Esso Belfast".
"Esso Belfast".
"Esso Belfast", ex. "G. Harrison Smith".
"Esso Belfast", ex. "G. Harrison Smith".
The Miramar Ship Index for "G. HARRISON SMITH"
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![]() Subsequent History:
1950 ESSO BELFAST
Disposal Data:
Scrapped at La Seyne 04.1958.
History:
![]() Additional Info ;
"ESSO BELFAST" - 1931- 1959, ex. "G. HARRISON SMITH"
Official Number: 183240
Rigging: steel single screw tanker; 2 decks; fitted with electric light, wireless & direction finder;
machinery aft, water ballast
Tonnage: 11,752 tons gross, 11,387 under deck and 7,328 net
Dimensions: 525 feet long, 74.3 foot beam and tanks 40.5 feet deep; Bridge 36 feet; Forecastle 40 feet
Construction: 1930, Federal Ship Building & Dry Dock Co. in Kearny, NJ
Propulsion: 2 steam turbines double reduction geared to screw shaft; engine by De Laval Steam
Turbines Co. in Trenton, NJ
Owners: Standard Shipping Co. (1931-38);
Standard Oil Co. (1939-48);
Panama Transport Co. (1949);
Anglo-American Oil Co. Ltd. (1950);
Esso (1951- 1959)
Port of registry: Wilmington, DE (1931-48);
Panama (1948-1949)
London (1950-59)
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