Ships managed by the Anglo-American Oil Company Ltd., for Ministry of War Transport 1939-1946 Name               Completed   Gross tons Lean Martin          1936       1,951     Built by Ch & At de St Nazaire, Quevilly, France, for (tanker) Standard Francaise des Petroles, Paris (Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey). Measurements: 252 feet length x 46 feet breadth. Engines: Oil. 1940: Transferred from French flag and operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 13.11.1940; Mined and sunk near St Anthony Point, Falmouth. Petrophalt        10.1930       2,627     Built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, as Ebano for Ebano Oil (tanker) Co., Glasgow, for carrying asphalt or oil in portable tanks from Lake Maracaibo to the U.S.A. Measurements: 290 feet length x 47 feet breadth. Engines: T3cyl. 1933 (Soc. Aux. de Transports, Rouen). 1939 Petrophalt (Standard Francaise des Petroles, Paris). 1940 Transferred from French flag and operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1945 Reverted to French flag and owners. 1952 Esso La Mailleraye (Esso Standard Soc. Anon. Francaise, Paris). 1953 Scrapped Spain. Christian Holm       1927      9,119     Built by Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen, as Christian. (tanker) Measurements: 500 feet (oa)/488 feet length x 64 feet breadth. Engines: Oil. Twin screws. 1929: Christian Holm (Det Danske Petroleum A/S, Copenhagen (Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey)). 1941: Transferred from Danish flag and operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1945: Reverted to Danish flag and owners. 1953: Riza Kaptan (Nazim Kalkavan, Istanbul). 1.1960: Scrapped Istanbul. Empire Mica        6.1941      8,032    Built by Furness Shipbuilding Co., Haverton, for (tanker) M.O.W.T. Measurements: 479 feet (oa)/464 feet length x 61 feet breadth. Engines: T3cyl. 1941: Operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 29.6.1942: Sunk by submarine (L/.67) torpedo in N. Atlantic.29.25N85.17W. Empire Oil         5.1941      8,029    Built by Furness Shipbuilding Co., Haverton, for (tanker) M.O.W.T. Measurements: 479 feet (oa)/464 feet length X 61 feet breadth. Engines: T3cyl. 1941: Operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 10.9.1942: Sunk by submarine (U.659) torpedo in N. Atlantic, 51.23N 28.13W. Empire Sapphire     7.1941      8,031     Built by Furness Shipbuilding Co., Haverton, for (tanker) M.O.W.T. Measurements: 479 feet (oa)/464 feet length X 61 feet breadth. Engines: T3cyl. 1941: Operated by Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. for M.O.W.T. 1942: Operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1943: Operated by British Tanker Co. for M.O.W.T. 1946: Esso Saranac (qv) Scandia (tanker)    12.1918      8,571     Built by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. as F. D. Asche. Measurements: 464 feet length X 60 feet breadth. Engines: Quad. 1922: Scandia (Det Danske Petroleum A/S, Copenhagen (Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey)). 1941: Transferred from Danish flag, operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1946: Reverted to Danish flag and owners. 1950: Amada (Cia. Mar. Iguana S.A., Panama). 2.1.1959: Arrived Savona for scrapping. Bulkoil (tanker)      1.1942       8,071     Built by Welding Shipyards Inc., Norfolk, Va., for National Bulk Carriers Inc., New York. Measurements: 438 feet length x 59 feet breadth. Engines: 2 steam turbines. 1.1942: Transferred from American flag, operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1943: (War Shipping Administration, U.S.A.). 1947: Returned to American owners. 1947: Munger T. Ball (Sabine Transportation Co., U.S.A.). 1958: Transwestern (Transwestern Shipping Corp., New York). 1961: (To U.S. Government under Ship Exchange Act). 21.8.1961: Arrived Burght, Belgium, for scrapping. Empire Coleridge    5.1942      9,813     Built by Sir James Laing & Sons Ltd., Sunderland, for (tanker) M.O.W.T. Measurements: 504 feet length X 68 feet breadth. Engines: T3cyl. 1942: Operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1945: Esso Cheyenne (qv). Kentucky           1942      9,308     Built by Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Chester, Pa., (tanker) for The Texas Co., Wilmington, Delaware. Measurements: 488 feet length X 68 feet breadth. Engines: 2 steam turbines. 1942: Transferred from U.S. flag and operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 15.6.1942: Bombed and damaged in Mediterranean, sunk by naval escort in position 36.37N 12.10E while on charter to the Admiralty. Empire Bronze     11.1940      8,142    Built by Hawthorn, Leslie & Co. Ltd., Newcastle, for (tanker) M.O.W.T. Measurements: 483 feet length X 59 feet breadth. Engines: Oil. 1943: Operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1946: Esso Cadtllac(qv). Empire Dickens     4.1942      9,819    Built by Furness Shipbuilding Co., Haverton, for (tanker) M.O.W.T. Measurements: 504 feet length X 68 feet breadth. Engines: T3cyl. 1944: Operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1946: Esso Appalachee (qv). Empire Pike          1905      1,854    Built by Government Yard, Sorel, Canada, as W. S. (tanker) Fielding. Measurements: 248 feet (oa)/240 feet length X 43 feet breadth. Engines: T6cyl. Twin screws. 1914; P.W.D. No. 1 (dredger) (Ministry of Public Works, Canada). 1943: Riding Mountain Park (converted to tanker by St John D.D. & S.B.Co., New Brunswick, for Canadian Government). 1945: Empire Pike (operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T.). 1947: Basingford (Bulk Storage Co. Ltd., London). 1949: Scrapped Dunston. Empire Tagalam    7.1936     10,401     Built by F. Schichau, Danzig, as Paul Harriett for Deutsch-(tanker) Amerikanische Petroleum Ges., Hamburg. Measurements: 506 feet (oa)/488 feet length X 70 feet Breadth Engines: Oil 1945: Empire Tagalam (operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T.). 1946: Transferred to U.S. flag (U.S.M.C.). 1947: Tagalam (Marine Transport Lines, New York). 1955: Cassian Sea (Pioneer Shipping Corp., Liberia). 1960: Scrapped Split. Empire Maldon       1946      3,734    Built by Sir James Laing & Sons Ltd., Sunderland, for (tanker) M.O.W.T. Measurements: 358 feet (oa)/344 feet length X 48 feet breadth. Engines: Oil. 1946: Operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1946: Imperial Halifax (Imperial Oil Co., Toronto). 1970: Congar (Johnstone Shipping Ltd., Toronto). 1977: Sold for breaking up. Twenty-four small tankers of the Tl-M-Al type, built in the United States during the war under the jurisdiction of the Un-ited States Maritime Commission, were loaned to Britain under Lease/Lend terms. They were operated under the Red Ensign on behalf of the Ministry of War Transport. Twelve of them were operated by the Anglo-American Oil Company during 1943 and thereafter management passed to a number of other British tanker shipping companies as fields of activity altered due to the demands of war. By 1945 they were all being operated by the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company Ltd. (later to become Shell). After the war the eleven surviving vessels were returned to American ownership and in 1946 ten were sold to the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company and then, in 1947, transferred to the China Tanker Company, both of Shang-hai. Following hostilities in China between Communist and Nationalist forces both the fleets were divided when taken over by the China People's Steam Navigation Company in 1949, although some vessels avoided confiscation by the Peking Government and escaped to follow the Nationalist cause, becoming registered in Formosa. In the May of that year the retreating Nationalist forces destroyed all the dockyards and workshops at Shanghai, on the eastern bank of the Whangpoo River. As the city fell into Communist hands and the last defending troops surrendered, all unwanted vessels on the river were scuttled. Among them were three Tl-type tankers owned by the China Tanker Company (see below). Less than two months later it was reported that salvage teams working for the Communists had, in only twenty days, refloated thirty-one of the ships scuttled in the Whangpoo River. All the twelve vessels -were built by Barnes-Duluth Shipbuilding Co., Duluth, Minnesota, as their yard Nos 1-12. Measurements; 210 feet length X 37 feet breadth. Engines: Oil, 800 hp. 10 knots. 1,124-1,148 gt. 1,600 tdw. Tarentum         5.1943               1943 Operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1944 Operated by J. W. Cook & Co. for M.O.W.T. 1945 Operated by Anglo-Saxon Pet. Co. for M.O.W.T. ,       1946 Returned to U.S.A. 1946 Yung Huai (Oil No. 126) (China Merchants S.N. Co., Shanghai). 1947 (China Tanker Co., Shanghai). 24.5.1949: Scuttled in Whangpoo River during Chinese hostilities. Mannington        5.1943               1943: Operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1944: Operated by C. Rowbotham & Sons for M.O.W.T. 1945: Operated by Anglo-Saxon Pet. Co. for M.O.W.T. 1946: Returned to U.S.A. 1946: Yung Siang (Oil No. 127) (China Merchants S.N. Co., Shanghai). 1947: (China Tanker Co., Shanghai). 1949: (Government of China). 1984: Name still listed in some shipping registers but removed from others due to lack of information regarding vessel's whereabouts. Titusville           6.1943               1943 Operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1944 Operated by Immingham Agency Ltd. for M.O.W.T. 1945 Operated by Anglo-Saxon Pet. Co. for M.O.W.T. 1946 Returned to U.S.A. 1946 Yung Han (Oil No. 122) (China Merchants S.N. Co., Shanghai). 1947 (China Tanker Co., Shanghai). 24.5.1949: Scuttled in Whangpoo River during Chinese hostilities. Glen Pool          6.1943               1943: Operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1944: Operated byJ. W. Cook & Co. for M.O.W.T. 1945: Operated by Anglo-Saxon Pet. Co. for M.O.W.T. 1946: Returned to U.S.A. 1946: Yung Fei (Oil No. 125) (China Merchants S.N. Co., Shanghai). 1947: (China Tanker Co., Shanghai). 1949: (China Tanker Co., Formosa). 11.1959: Scrapped Formosa. Jennings           6.1943                1943: Operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1944: Operated by F. T. Everard & Sons for M.O.W.T. 1945: Operated by Anglo-Saxon Pet. Co. for M.O.W.T. 1946: Returned to U.S.A. 1946: Yung Loo (Oil No. 130) (China Merchants S.N. Co., Shanghai). 1947: (China Tanker Co., Shanghai). 24.5.1949: Scuttled in Whangpoo River during Chinese hostilities. Salt Creek         7.1943               1943: Operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1944: Operated by C. Rowbotham & Sons for M.O.W.T. 1945: Operated by Anglo-Saxon Pet. Co. for M.O.W.T. 1946: Returned to U.S.A. 1947: Punta Rasa (Argentinian Navy). 1971: Deleted from Argentinian Navy list. Tonkawa          8.1943               1943: Operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1944: Operated by C. Rowbotham & Sons for M.O.W.T. 1945: Operated by Anglo-Saxon Pet. Co. for M.O.W.T. 1946: Returned to U.S.A. 1946: Yung Luan (Oil No. 124) (China Merchants S.N. Co., Shanghai). 1947: (China Tanker Co., Shanghai). 1949: (China Tanker Co., Formosa). 1965: Scrapped Formosa. Benton Field       8.1943               1943: Operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1944: Operated by J. W. Cook & Co. for M.O.W.T. 1945: Operated by Anglo-Saxon Pet. Co. for M.O.W.T. 1946: Returned to U.S.A. 1946: Yung Lu (Oil No. 123) (China Merchants S.N. Co., Shanghai). 1947: (China Tanker Co., Shanghai). 1949: (China Tanker Co., Formosa). 11.1959: Scrapped Formosa. Cromwell          9.1943               1943: Operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1944: Operated by Immingham Agency Ltd., for M.O.W.T. 1945: Operated by Anglo-Saxon Pet. Co. for M.O.W.T. 1946: Returned to U.S.A. 1946: Yung Chang (Oil No. 128) (China Merchants S.N. Co., Shanghai). 1947: (China Tanker Co., Shanghai). 1949: (China Tanker Co., Formosa). 1963: Scrapped Formosa. Rio Bravo          9.1943                1943: Operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1944: Operated by F. T. Everard & Sons for M.O.W.T. 2.11.1944: Torpedoed in engine room by German E-boat while at anchor in Ostend Roads, Belgium (voyage Ostend/River Thames-ballast). Vessel flooded aft and caught fire; accommodation destroyed. Ship capsized and last seen floating bottom up; presumed sunk. Walnut Bend     10.1943              1943: Operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1944: Operated by F. T. Everard & Sons for M.O.W.T. 1945: Operated by Anglo-Saxon Pet. Co. for M.O.W.T. 1946: Returned to U.S.A. 1946: Yung Wei (Oil No. 129) (China Merchants S.N. Co., Shanghai). 1947: (China Tanker Co., Shanghai). 1949: (Government of China). 1984: Name still listed in some shipping registers but removed from others due to lack of information regarding vessel's whereabouts. Loma Novia      10.1943              1943 Operated by Anglo-American for M.O.W.T. 1944 Operated by C. Rowbotham & Sons for M.O.W.T. 1945 Operated by Anglo-Saxon Pet. Co. for M.O.W.T., in service with British Pacific Fleet. 1946 Returned to U.S.A. 1946 Yung Fu (Oil No. 121) (China Merchants S.N. Co., Shanghai). 1947 (China Tanker Co., Shanghai). 1949 (China Tanker Co., Formosa). 2.1962: Scrapped Formosa. One vessel operated by Anglo-American Oil Company for Petroleum Shipping Company Ltd., Panama (Socony Vacuum Oil Company). Algonquin         11.1920      7,229     Built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Alameda, California, for Standard Transportation Co. Inc., New York (Socony Vacuum Oil Company). Measurements: 453 feet (oa)/435 feet length X 56 feet breadth. Engines: T3cyl. 1941: Transferred to British flag, operated by Anglo-American Oil Co. for owners. 1946: Reverted to owners. 1953: Scrapped Japan.