Official Number:                      221608

Laid down:

Builder:                                  Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co, Newport News

Launched:                              20 August 1921

Into Service:                           WW2

Out of service:                        WW2

Fate:                                      January 1962 broken up

Items of historic interest involving this ship: –

Background Data:  One of a group of additional American ships which served as Escort Oilers during WW2

Career Data

September 1921  completed

1927 transferred to Standard Shipping Co Inc, Wilmington name unchanged

5 July 1931 sailed for Corpus Christi, Texas

1935 owners restyled as Standard Oil Co of New Jersey, Wilmington name unchanged

23 April 1942 owners became US WSA, name unchanged

WW2  served as an Escort Oiler name unchanged

18 June 1942 sailed from Key West to New York in unescorted convoy KN11 arriving 24 June 1942

29 June 1942 sailed from Hampton Roads to Key West in unescorted convoy KS515 arriving 5 July 1942

22 July 1942 sailed from Key West to Hampton Roads in unescorted convoy KN122 arriving 26 July 1942

31 July 1942 sailed from Hampton Roads to Key West in unescorted convoy KS526 arriving 8 August 1942

29 August 1942 sailed from Key West to Hampton Roads in unescorted convoy KN135 arriving 4 September 1942

13 September 1942 sailed from New York to Guantanamo Bay in unescorted convoy NG305 arriving 20 September 1942

20 September 1942 sailed from Guantanamo Bay to Curaçao in unescorted convoy GAT 7 arriving on 27 September 1942

9 October 1942 sailed Curaçao to Guantanamo Bay in escorted convoy TAG 12 arriving 14 October 1942

15 October 1942 sailed from Guantanamo Bay to New York in unescorted convoy GN12 arriving 24 October 1942

1 November 1942 sailed from New York to Liverpool in escorted convoy SC108 arriving 19 November 1942

26 November 1942 sailed Liverpool to New York in escorted convoy ON149 arriving 12 December 1942

30 December 1942 sailed from New York to Guantanamo Bay in unescorted convoy NG333 arriving 6 January 1943

1946  returned to her owners, name unchanged

1949  transferred to Panama Transport Co, Panama name unchanged

1950  purchased by Esso Petroleum Co Ltd, London and renamed ESSO LIVERPOOL

13 March 1950 passed Gibraltar sailing west bound

20 March 1950 berthed at Swan Hunter Walker, River Tyne in refit

3 April 1950 berthed at Swan Hunter Walker, River Tyne in refit

1953  purchased by Steamship Enterprises of Panama Ltd ( Marini & Brichetto, Managers) Genoa and renamed LIVERPOOL 8 January 1957 in collision with the British steamer OUSEL off Rock Ferry Stage in the River Mersey

16 September 1957 laid up at Genoa

January 1962 arrived Vado Ligure for demolition by A.R.D.E.M. S.p.A.