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Esso Charleston - (1939-1953)
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 The SS "Esso Charleston" on February 13, 1944, bound from New York and Norfolk for Gibraltar and Casablanca.
Destroyer maneuvres into position alongsid fueling vessel to get an "oil transfusion", an operation in which the
"Esso Charleston" and her companion ships of the Esso fleet became adept.

The Miramar Ship Index for "ESSO CHARLESTON"
IDNo:
2237933
Year:
1938
Name:
ESSO CHARLESTON
Keel:
Type:
Tanker
Launch Date:
23.07.1938
Flag:
USA
Date of completion:
10.1938

TonS:
7949
Link:
-
DWT:
12950
Yard No:
4309
Length overall:
Ship Design:
LPP:
135.8
Country of build:
USA
Beam:
19.6
Builder:
Bethlehem
Material of build:
Location of yard:
Sparrow's Point
Number of screws/Mchy/Speed(kn):
1ST-12

Subsequent History:
1953 POSEIDON - 1956 YAMSOUF

Disposal Data:
Scrapped at La Spezia 01.11.1963. ( By Cantiere di Portovenere S.p.A. )

History :
ON
LR/IMO
ID
Year
Name
Tons
Change
Registered Owner
237933
2237933
1938
ESSO CHARLESTON
7949
Standard Oil Co NJ.
755
2237933
1938
POSEIDON
7949
1953
Tramp Sg & Oil Tptn.
2237933
1938
YAMSOUF
7949
1956
Tramp Ships

Sisterships are R. W. Gallagher, Esso Baton Rouge, Esso Baltimore, and Esso Nashville.

 Source photo Pacific Marine Review, Volume 35, August, 1938
Recent Launchings at American Shipyards.
Esso Charleston, last of four 13,000 deadweight ton tankers building at the Sparrows Point Plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding CorporationLtd.,  for the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey, was launched July 23.

Additional Info by Starke & Schell Registers :

ESSO CHARLESTON - 1938  USA  1ST (aft)(12)
7,949 GRT for Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, Wilmington, Del., 445.4 x 64.2
Tanker build by Bethlehem SB. Corp., Ltd., Sparrow's Point, Md.  (10),  #4309,  237933
1950 - Esso Shipping Company, Wilmington, Del.
1953 - POSEIDON, Tramp Shipping & Oil Transportation Corp., Wilmington, Del.
1956 - Pioneer Shipping Corp., Ltd., Monrovia       LI    755
1956 - YAMSOUF, Tramp Ships, Ltd., Haifa      IS
1959 - Cargo Ships El-Yam, Ltd., Haifa   [Maritime Overseas Corp., New York]
Broken up at La Spezia 1963 by Cantiere di Portovenere S.p.A.,
arrived 01.11.1963, work began in 12.1963.

Maritime Administration Cards: