Auke Visser´s German Esso Tanker's site     |   home German ESSO Tankers Album Delphin - (1913-1914) Drawing by Karl-Heinz Schwadtke. Additional Info by Starke & Schell Registers : DELPHIN - 1913       GE       1Q (aft)     (10) 7,129 GRT for Deutsch-Amerik. Petroleum Ges., Hamburg      449.6 x 50.1 Tanker build by Akt. Ges. "Neptun", Rostock     (12)     #332 Arrived at Norfolk, 16 Aug 1914, voy. Hamburg - Baton Rouge, transferred to U.S. flag 1914 - ARDMORE   Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, New York      US      212964 1924 - Ardmore SS. Co., Inc. (C. D. Mallory & Co., Inc.), Wilmington, Del. 1941 - Farr Shipping & Operating Co., Inc., Wilmington, Del. 1943 - Bessemer Trust Co., Inc., Wilmington, Del. 1946 - YUNG CHENG   China Merchants' Steam Navigation Co., Shanghai       CS 1948 - China Tanker Co., Ltd., Shanghai / Kaohsiung     TW - 49 Broken up at Keelung, 4th quarter 1950.