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Christening- & Launch ceremony SS "Champion's Hill", later "Esso London (I)"
( All Photos : Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company photograph collection, by Knott, A.V. )
Christening- & Launch ceremony SS "Champion's Hill", later "Esso London (I)", later renamed the "Esso London (I)",
hull number 451, on 3 November 1943.
16, 263 DWT, Single screw turbo-electric, 7, 500 HP. Contract price $ 2.7 Million.
Built by Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company for U.S. Maritime Commission.
Post launch, showing launching party, A. Haig VP Sun Ship bottom left.
Post launch, A. Haig VP Sun Ship right, Sponsor Mrs. F. McShane.
Pre-Launch picture.
Christening "Champion's Hill", later "Esso London (I)", by Sponsor Mrs. F. McShane.
Mid-way down shipway.
Ship has cleared the shipway and is afloat for the first time.
Launched with tugs taking her to outfitting pier.
( All Photos : Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company photograph collection, by Knott, A.V. )