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HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD - ESSO GETTYSBURG - 1957
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Esso Gettysburg
HAER No. CA-354
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“Large petroleum cargo arrives.” Baltimore Sun, Oct. 3, 1958, 39.
“Esso will shift ship operations.” New York Times, Jan. 29, 1961, S12.
“2 ships collide off north point.” Baltimore Sun, May 14, 1964, 38.
“Tanker hits rocks, spills heating oil.” Chicago Tribune, Jan. 24, 1971, 7.
“385,000 gallons of oil spill into sound.” New York Times, Jan. 24, 1971, 1.
Treaster, Joseph B. “12-mile slick held back from sound shore by ice.” New York Times, Jan. 25, 1971, 16.
Treaster, Joseph B. “Damage is slight from oil in sound.” New York Times. Jan. 26, 1971, 37.
“Fish are unharmed by sound oil spill.” New York Times, Jan. 27, 1971, 44.
Bryant, Nelson. “Chatting replaces shooting on bluebill hunt on icy Long Island Sound.” New York Times, Feb. 4, 1971, 44.
Barringer, Felicity. “William R. Stott, 91, ex-official at Standard Oil of New Jersey.” New York Times, Aug. 16, 1999, B8.
“Shipping: The Biggest Tankers.” Time, Oct. 14, 1957.
Weilenman, Donna Beth. “Eighth ship leaves bay.” Benicia Herald, May 21, 2010. http://beniciaherald.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/eighth-ship-leaves-bay/.

B. Secondary Sources:
ABS Eagle Record for Gettysburg. http://www.eagle.org/.
Benford, Henry, ed. A Half Century of Maritime Technology, 1943–1993. Jersey City, N.J.: Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 1993.
Ferguson, Allen R., et al., The Economic Value of the United States Merchant Marine. Evanston, Ill.: Transportation Center at Northwestern University, 1961.
Hidy, Ralph W. Pioneering in Big Business, 1882–1911. Vol. 1 of History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey). New York: Harper & Bros., 1955.
Maritime Administration custody card for Gettysburg. https://pmars.marad.dot.gov/ detail.asp?Ship=1960.
Roland, Alex, W. Jeffrey Bolster, and Alexander Keyssar. The Way of the Ship: America’s Maritime History Reenvi-sioned, 1600–2000. John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Will, John M. “By Ship—The Salt of the Sea Not Withstanding.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 345 (Jan. 1963): 81–88.

C. Likely Sources Not Yet Investigated:
ExxonMobil Historical Collection. The Center for American History. University of Texas at Austin.

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