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Lago / Creole / Lagoven Petroleum Corp.
La Salina - (1927-1953)
On the right "La Salina"and on the her sister "Lagunilla" seen here at La Salinas.
( Photo by : Sleightholm Sr. )
 
3 Lakers and a unknown larger oil tanker in San Nicolas, Aruba, 1927. The nearest to the camera is the
Laker "La Salina".
( Photo thanks to Lago Colony web site )

La Salina    6.1927     2,395
1938: (Cia de Petroleo Lago, Venezuela).
9.1953: Scrapped Mobile, Alabama.

Additional Info by Starke & Schell Registers :

LA SALINA - 1927      BR      2T (aft)     (10½)
2,402 GRT for Lago Shipping Co., Ltd. (A. Weir & Co.), London         305.7 x 50.2
Tanker built by Harland & Wolff, Ltd., Belfast     (6)     #794      149854
1936 - s/o (self-managing)
1939 - Cia. de Petroleo Lago, Maracaibo       VE
Broken up at Mobile 1953 by Pinto Island Metal Co.,  arrived 14.04.1953, work began 01.09.1953.