Esso

[Andrew McPhee]

Thanks a million, Mr Harvey,

These are all leads I'll try to follow. It'd be really great if some Angle-American personnel records could turn up. I'm dead keen to find out as much as I can about his career at sea. If anyone else knows anything else, please just let me know.

Andrew

[Captain Kong]

Hi Arthur,

Geo W McKnight built 1933, 12,502 Grt, built by Krupp Kiel, for Baltisch Amerikanicshe Petroleu, In 1935 Panama Transport Co.1939 Anglo American 3 May 1942 torpedoed by U66 in convoy ON87, North Atlantic, repaired
In 1950 renamed Esso Edinburgh
July 1954 scrapped at Blyth.


As for records, try Esso Petroleum Ltd, Victoria Street
London. or Esso Petroleum Fawley Hampshire,
When I was with Esso they were the Head offices..

[Mike Bishop]

Hi Lawrence ,did you ever come across the Chemawa was ESSO but had an all black funnel,sailed in her 1956 as AB,did have photo but virus wiped it of???!!!@!
regards to all mariners
mike bishop(are39)

[JoeWhelan]

Hi Mike, Photo and details of Chemawa on Auke Visser website. She was a T2-SE-A1. I sailed in the Cannon Beach which was also a T2 with a black funnel she was on bareboat charter to Esso. I also sailed in the Esso Appalache and Esso Preston. Regards Joe.

[Michael Alan Kingsbury]

hi joe i am son of michael kingsbury he would have been a steward on board cannon beach probably down persian gulf appox 1956 he also sailed on esso london ,esso cambridge,and a few others ,tryin to remember guys who might sailed with him do you remember him by any chance, any help would be appreciated

[Stuart Henderson]

I sailed on the T3 Esso Syracuse in 1951-2, long trip I recall ten months ? Good feeder though. Spent my 21st birthday on her between BA and Cape Town enroute P.Gulf & Sasebo ,Japan. The old man (Jones) wouldnt allow me a case of beer to celebrate with my shipmates just the usual two cans. She was Panama flag. still have Panamian issued "passport" for South American ports/ Was sent to her from Dock St pool joined in Wallsend,left in Le Havre.
Stuart H

[Ann-Marie Frankland]

Dear All
I came across this site while researching an old book of my father's - Tom Frankland. The book is called "We Sailed in Convoy" by Maurice Brown published about 1942. I have been reading the book lately and it made me remember my father's stories about his Esso days during and after WW2. Unfortunately he died in 1976 prematurely at the age of 51 and is still sadly missed. I know he sailed on the Wolf I think and the Seminole amongst many others but have no dates at hand. He joined the MN at the beginning of the war when he was about 17yrs old and sailed until about 1953 when he left to marry my mother. Did any of you by any chance sail with him? He was born in Leeds 19th October 1923.

Best regards Ann-Marie Frankland (daugher)

[Colin Hawken]

Esso Newcastle (ex Robert F Hand) 1950 Esso Cardiff T2, 1951.John Flanigan T2 Panama,Lucky Star T2 Panama,Chantilly T2 Panama, Winchester T2 Panama,Esso Hull, London. Finally a Red Ensign.

[Gulliver]

Reading your messages with relish but no mention of Esso Appalachee, Cadallac,Cheyenne, Fawley (T2),Saguaro (Panamanian T2) and I was an AB on the Montevideo back in 1955.
Generally good runs, ovies and food not found elsewhere. Pursres? Not in my days, they were for liners and the likes.
Was anchored off Aruba on the Montevideo awaiting the pilot when there was a collision of horriffic consequences, just can't remember the names of the two Esso ships now, but, when we went to drydock in Palermo, they welded up the doors from the accomodation to the decks,
We had a Chief Officer (Nav.) and a Loading mate Mr. Nicholson who, I believe came from Stornaway, 2nd Mate a Mr. Eve from Helensborough succeeded Mr, Priest from Tyne area when we reached Palermo . Can't remember 3rd Mate as I kept the permanent 12-4 watch.
Laurence H. Stroud ex Cowes Isle of Wight

Can’t find any reference to that one- in 1955? But the excellent Auk Visser Tankers site HERE. mentions the following collision in the Esso section. and it seems likely that it could be this one.


20th April,1951



U.S Flag t.e.ESSO GREENSBORO 16,613 dwt.(which was the ex Molina del Ray built in 1943).Collision with s.t.ESSO SUEZ (blt 1949, 26,759 dwt,)in Gulf of Mexico , abt 200 miles SSW of SW Pass, Mississippi River, about 26.17.5N, 91.25.5W.
Both ships were running at 15 knots in dense fog. Esso Suez altered to port for a green to green passage. Nobody on the Greensboro's bridge survived, but it is clear from the testimony of the Esso Suez bridge, and the position of Greensboro's rudder that she altered to starboard. Greensboro was loaded with about 141,000 barrels of West Texas crude. Suez was in ballast. Suez ploughed into port side of Greensboro in way of No 8 tanks. Both ships caught fire. All but 5 crew on the Greensboro were fried (39). Two killed on the Suez.
Incredibly, both ships survived and the Greensboro was towed in to Galveston, the Suez arriving under her own steam. The Board inspected both ships. On the Esso Suez the side shell plating and all internal structural members were severed between the 15 foot and 28 foot waterline from the stem approximately 40 feet aft on the port side and 65 feet aft on the starboard side.
On the Esso Greensboro whose beam was 68 feet, the vessel was cut in the way of No 8 tank for a distance of 60 feet, from main deck to an undetermined depth. The main deck was completely severed for a distance of 60 feet. The No 8 tanks longitudinal bulkheads were ruptured, the transverse bulkheads to Nos. 7 and 9 port tanks were ruptured, and the transverse bulkheads to Nos. 7 and 9 center tanks were also affected. All steam and water pipes, fire lines, electric wiring, and communication lines from bridge to engine room were severed in way of the collision. 97,000 barrels of the approximately 141,000 barrel cargo were recovered from the Greensboro.
(Source : USCGDate : 1951-03-20)

Vessels Fates
ESSO GREENSBORO After the accident was repaired and lengthened and re-entered service in 5/1952 as ESSO SAN JUAN.)Pan)Sold 1961 to Argentina,renamed PETROMAR CORDOBA.Scrapped Valencia 7/67

ESSO SUEZ .Repaired and re-entered service retaining name ESSO SUEZ. Renamed ESSO JACKSONVILLE in 62- OCEAN PIONEER in 64- TRANSPANAMA in 68 and SAN MARCOS in 76. Retained U.S.Flag throughout.Broken up Kaohsiung.Taiwan 6/84.

UCSG REPORT HERE
　

[john jack]

hi im john jack ex esso tankers love to chat or find out old friends get in touch if your around john