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Esso Standard 1 - (1934- ?? )
 Tug "Standard 1", later "Esso Standard 1", built in 1934. Yardno. 628. Seen here as "Lieutenant Gillet". 19 Tons, 120 BHP.
 Tug "Standard 1", later "Esso Standard 1".. Seen here as "Lieutenant Gillet".

LIEUTENANT GILLET ex-ESSO STANDARD 1 ex-STANDARD 1

19grt, 14.47 x 3.48 x 1.50m
built 1934 C van der Giessen & Zonen's Scheepswerven, Krimpen a/d IJssel (Yd 628), Netherlands.
M diesel 120bhp 1scr Sulzer

1934 Société Fenaille et Despeaux L'Économique, Paris as tug STANDARD 1 (FRA flag) - for service at the new Port Jerome refinery
1935 Standard Française des Pétroles ("La Pétroléenne"), Paris
1952 Esso Standard SA Française, Paris, renamed ESSO STANDARD 1
1970 converted to fireboat
1974 Esso SA Française, Paris
197x abandoned on the banks of the River Seine
1980 Cité of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Département de Yvelines (Corps des Sapeurs Pompiers,
Conflans-Sainte-Honorine) restored to service, renamed LIEUTENANT GILLET (reg Paris, ON P.16604; displ.37t, 15.50 x 2.70 x 1.50m)
1990 re-engined M6cyl 330bhp 10kn, Baudouin type 6M26S
200x to private owner as historical recreational vessel
2017 still preserved at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine