Mexoil

(1918) 193                               Mexoil                                    1947 (1957)

Steel twin-screw tanker

Built at Violet LA by Alabama & New Orleans Transportation Co., Hull 23
Launched 1918
Built for Huasteca Petroleum Co., New Orleans LA for off-Lakes service. 

258’7” LOA, 242’6” LBP, 37’9” beam, 19’ depth
1 deck, oil-fired boilers, 2 compound engines, 900 IHP

Enrolled at
242.5 x 36.9 x 19.7, 1370 GT, 760 NT     US 216397 

Repowered 1921

Sold 1930 to Fuel Oil Corporation, Detroit MI (home port to New York NY)

Sold 1931 to Great Lakes Transport Corporation, Detroit MI and entered Great Lakes service

Transferred 1947 to off-Lakes service and left the Great Lakes

Registered Panamanian 1947 and British (B.W.I.) (Br 191554) 1951

Scrapped 1957 at Hamilton ON by Steel Company of Canada

 

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