Auke Visser's Famous T - Tankers Pages     |   home
The almost "Look A Likes" of T2-Tankers
R. C. Stoner
See also :  On board photos "R. C. Stoner" - Part 1 & On board photos "R. C. Stoner" - Part 2

A "Look A Like" T2-Tanker

R. C. STONER, US, 1ST (aft)
11,250 Grt for Standard Oil Co. of California, San Francisco, 524.6 x 70.2
Tanker built by Sun SB. & DD. Co., Chester, Pa.,  (4/43),   #239 ,  243128
Wrecked 5 Sep 1967, off Wake Island, in bad weather, voyage Honolulu - Wake Island, aviation fuel,
broke in two 8 Sep, CTL, wreck demolished with explosives.
( See photos below )
The Miramar Ship Index for "R. C. STONER"
IDNo:
5288487
Year:
1943
Name:
R. C. STONER
Keel:
Type:
Tanker
Launch Date:
13.01.1943
Flag:
USA
Date of completion:
04.1943

Tons:
11658
Link:
-
DWT:
19200
Yard No:
239
Length overall:
165.7
Ship Design:
LPP:
Country of build:
USA
Beam:
21.4
Builder:
Sun
Material of build:
Location of yard:
Chester, Pa
Number of screws/Mchy/Speed(kn):
1ST-

Subsequent History:
-

Disposal Data:
Wrecked off Wake Island on 05.09.1967.

History:
ON
LR/IMO
ID
Year
Name
Tons
Change
Registered Owner
243128
5288487
5288487
1943
R. C. STONER
11658
-
Standard Oil Co of California

General Plan "R. C. Stoner".
Its bow proudly pointed upward, the "R. C. Stoner "is awaiting the christening ceremony, anxiously desirous
of getting its first feel of water.
MRS. R. C. STONER christens one for her husband at the yard of the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
Company, Chester, Pa.
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERISTICS "R. C. Stoner".
"R. C. Stoner".