Auke Visser's Exxon- & S/R Vessels Site | home
Gettysburg
"Gettysburg", ex. "Exxon Gettysburg", ex. "Esso Gettysburg", at Cristobal, Panama, June 2010.
On the way to the breakers in Brownsville.
"Gettysburg", ex. "Exxon Gettysburg", ex. "Esso Gettysburg", at Cristobal, Panama, June 2010.
On the way to the breakers in Brownsville.
The 1957-built liquid bulk tanker GETTYSBURG is the latest ship to depart Suisuin Bay for BAE Systems in San Francisco for hull
cleaning prior to being towed to Brownsville, Texas, where she will be scrapped. The eighth ship of some 55 slated for disposal
by 2017 (the 20 worst of which will be gone by 30 September 2012), she was built by Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock
Company as the ESSO GETTYSBURG for Esso Shipping Company. The 27,300 dwt ton ship had a service speed of 18.3 knots
and was built with provisional military service in mind. In 1977, she was renamed EXXON GETTYSBURG and in 1987, joined the
reserve fleet at Suisuin Bay where she was renamed GETTYSBURG in 1989. The handsome two island type tanker
was put on the scrapping list in 2006.
In to the Dry Dock.
In Dry Dock.
In Dry Dock.
Out of Dry Dock.
Out of Dry Dock.
Out of Dry Dock.
She went thru the Panama Canal today on her way to Brownsville, TX.
Scrapping is going on in Brownsville, TX.
( This picture by courtesy of Mike Furgatch, Yard Manager at Esco Marine, Inc. Brownsville )
Scrapping is going on in Brownsville, TX.
( This picture by courtesy of Mike Furgatch, Yard Manager at Esco Marine, Inc. Brownsville )