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Esso Amsterdam (I) - (1947-1959)
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Launch April 1945 of the "Santa Fe Hills", the later "Esso Amsterdam (I)".
Launched at 8 April 1945. Built in 65 days and 4 hours.
Contract Price : $2.686.140,00, Final Price: $1.732.889,47, savings : -35.49%.
Sponsor, at the launch, Mrs.Richard F.Grambow (wife of naval architect at Marinship).
SANTA FE HILLS
04.1945
1948: ESSO AMSTERDAM (I).
1959: Sold to Norway for use as an electricity generating plant. Renamed MOELV. 17.12.1959: Turbines exploded and disintegrated while in use as a generating station at Gothenbuig. CTL. Sold.
13.2.1960: Left Gothenburg in tow of tug ENGLISHMAN, bound for shipbreakers.
19.2.1960: Towrope parted during a gate in the North Sea, vessel adiift. Tug later recon-nected with tow.
22.2.1960: Arrived Biyth and scrapped the following month.
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Painting of ''Esso Amsterdam (I)'' by R.J. Koch.
Painting by courtesy Esso Historisch Archief.
Built April 1945 by The Marinship Corporation, Sausalito, California,
as "Santa Fe Hills" # 2534, for U.M.S.C.
1945: “Santa Fe Hills”, U.S. War Shipping Administration, San Francisco.
1948 "Esso Amsterdam", Petroleum Industrie Mij., 's Gravenhage.
1952 "Esso Amsterdam", Esso Tankvaart Mij., 's Gravenhage.
1959 “Moelv”, Thorvald Klaveness & Co. A/S., Oslo, Norway.
1960 Scrapped.
Additional information :
1959, Sold to Norway for use as an electricity generating plant. Renamed MOELV. December 17, 1959,
turbines exploded and disintegrated while in use as a generating station at Gothenburg. Constructive
Total Loss. Sold. February 13, 1960, left Gothengurg in tow of tug ENGLISHMEN, bound for shipbreakers.
February 19, 1960, towrope parted during gale in the North Sea, vessel adrift. Tug later reconnected tow.
February 22, 1960, arrived Blyth and scrapped the following month.
Ship Report for "SANTA FE HILLS"
IDNo:
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2247709
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Year:
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1945
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Name:
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SANTA FE HILLS
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Launch Date:
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08.04.1945
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Type:
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Tanker
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Date of completion:
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30.04.1945
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Flag:
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USA
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Keel:
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19.02.1945
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DWT:
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16613
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Yard No:
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80
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Length overall:
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159.6
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Ship Design:
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T2-SE-A1
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LPP:
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153.3
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Country of build:
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USA
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Beam:
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20.7
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Builder:
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Marinship Corp
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Material of build:
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Location of yard:
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Sausalito
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Number of screws/Mchy/Speed(kn):
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1TE-15
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Owner as Completed:
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U.S. War Sg Administration, San Francisco
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Subsequent History:
1948 ESSO AMSTERDAM - 1959 MOELV
Disposal Data:
Explosion at Gothenburg 17.12.1959 & scrapped at Blyth 22.02.1960.
History:
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LR/IMO
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ID
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Year
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Name
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Tons
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Name change
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Main Owner
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247709
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2247709
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1945
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SANTA FE HILLS
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10441
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U.S. Govt
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2247709
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1945
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ESSO AMSTERDAM
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10441
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1948
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Petroleum Industrie Mij
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2247709
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1945
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MOELV
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10441
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1959
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T. Klaveness
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De T2-tanker "Esso Amsterdam" (1945, 10.952 brt) werd in November 1947 door de Nederlandse regering
aangekocht en in Mei 1948 bij de Petroleum Industrie Maatschappij ( Esso v) in dienst gesteld.
"Esso Amsterdam (I)''.
"Esso Amsterdam (I)''.
"Esso Amsterdam (I)''
"Esso Amsterdam (I)''
"Esso Amsterdam (I)''.
Two sisters together during the Suez-crisis, left "Esso Amsterdam (I)" and the "Esso den Haag (I)" on the right.
"Esso Amsterdam (I)" at the pier 1in 1954 at the Entrepot der SAPC at Pernis, also the barge "Esso Nederland 129".
( Photo by Theo de Koning )
"Esso Amsterdam (I)''.