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Launch ceremony, "Esso Boston (2)"
Mrs. Parker, sponsor of Esso Boston, splatters self and tanker as newest addition to U.S. merchant fleet iss launched.
She is wife of President of Esso Export Corp.
Supertanker slides stern-first into James River in contrast to motionless flotation of atomic airraft carrier Enterprise four
days earlier just two graving docks away.
After her launch on her way to Pier 10.
Source : Daily Press clippings from the launching of Esso Boston in September, 1960.
( Thanks to S. Dale Hargrave )