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Esso Australia - (1963-1975)
"Esso Australia" was build in 1955 as "Stanvac Australia". Renamed "Esso Australia" in 1963.Sold as "Petrola XXII" in 1975, renamed "Petrola 22", sold in 1978 for breaking up in Spain.
( Photo Pieter Inpijn )
"Esso Australia", here seen at Rotterdam, Netherlands, May 29th, 1972.( Photo Malcolm Cranfield )
"Esso Australia".
"Esso Australia".
( Photo thanks to Alberto Garcia )
"Esso Australia".
Year
|
Name
|
Tonnage
|
Type
|
Year
Built
|
Built at
|
Fate
Year
|
Fate
|
LR/IMO
Number
|
Remarks
|
1955
|
STANVAC AUSTRALIA
|
17297
|
tanker
|
1955
|
Clydebank
|
1978
|
Scrapped
|
5403879
|
|
Later Identities:
Change Year
|
Name
|
Tonnage
|
Type
|
Remarks
|
1963
|
ESSO AUSTRALIA
|
16996
|
|
1963/ex Stanvac Australia
|
1975
|
PETROLA 22#
|
16996
|
|
1975/ex Stanvac Australia
|
"Esso Australia" in Port Said, Egypt.
( Photo thanks to Alberto Garcia )
"Esso Australia" in Kanagawa, Japan.
( Photo thanks to Alberto Garcia )
"Esso Australia" in Gatun Locks, Panama.
( Photo thanks to Alberto Garcia )
Bij de werf te Genua, "Esso Rotterdam", links en de "Esso Australia", rechts.
At the shipyard in Genoa, "Esso Rotterdam" left and the "Esso Australia", right.
April 1967.
( Photo by Leo Daane Bolier )
TSS STANVAC AUSTRALIA
Yard No: 681
Current Name: ESSO AUSTRALIA (1963)
Port of Registry: Panama
Shipbuilder: John Brown Clydebank
Engine Builder: shipbuilder
Propulsion: 2 Steam turbines dr geared to sc shaft 13750shp 17.25 knotsmachy aft
Launched: 24 May 1955
Built: 1955
Ship Type: Tanker
Tonnage: 16996 grt | 26603 dwt
Length: 629 feet 6
Breadth: 82 feet 11
Draught: 32 feet 4
Owner: Vacuum Oil Company
Status: Unknown -
Remarks: - Previous update by Paul Strathdee - Previous update by Colin Campbell.
Last updated: 16 December 2003 by Colin Campbell from the original records by Stuart Cameron.