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COPIED FROM THE COLLECTIONS IN THE CI-.NTI-K l-'OK AV.FItiC THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS A T A U S T IN ' PUBLISHED BY THE MARINE DIVISION, HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY Vol. 5, No. 8 April 18, 1963 SIGHTS & We give a double dip of the ensign to W. W. Bryan, a Vice President of Humble, for this little gem in his April 9 address before the Tennessee Oil Men's Association. Mem phis. Said Mr. Bryan. "The best place (for us) to look for a helping hand is at the end of our arm." An item in the 2/7/63 Fleet News entitled "Operation Bottom Warming" told about heating the bottom plates and interiors of tanks of the Esso New York so that Rust-Ban 191 could be applied during cold weather. Credit for suggesting the hull warming system was given to another of our "Old Pro'' coating inspectors. Third Mate Gerald F. Smith. Now comes a letter from Second Asst. D. H. Hettinger, of the Esso Lima, who is yet another coating inspector of some prow'ess. Mr. Hettinger does not take exception to any of the facts in the article but would like us to know that he used a similar heating arrangement on a coating job in West Germany as far back as Oct. 1961. Mr. H. also expressed concern that "articles such as this might cause Port Engineer T. J. McTaggart to feel that his men are not on the ball and give the entire Dept, an inferiority complex''. (HabEd.) Continuing with tongue in cheek, he adds. "The article did. in a small way. confirm mv long-standing belief that Mates in general, are approx, two to five years behind Engineets in original and productive ideas. " (Right here is where we duck.) While there is seldom anything about accident reports to arouse mirth, this one is an exception. It seems a seaman bruised his shin on the coaming while stepping through a door to the fore deck. Question #26 in the report asks "What steps should be taken to avoid a recurrence of acci dent?'' Answer - higher. SOUNDINGS gloves to every man on deck or are the men supposed to bum a pair from a dock worker ...?'' Good question. Three types of gloves may be requisitioned by vescels -- Neoprene coated can vas gloves to protect hands from coming in contact with skin-irritating products, rubber gauntlets for electrical work and asbestos gloves for handling hot objects. The Marine Regulations (article 398) state that "All crew members engaged in loading or discharge of aromatic solvents (Toluol. Xylol. Heptane and other similar products), caustic soda or liquefied petroleum gases, shall wear gloves furnished by the vessel . . .'' Safety Circular Letter #68 also adds aromatic tar and fuel oil to this list of products. There are no regulations for issuing gloves for warmth and comfort anv more than there are for socks. The Esso Scranton ( Captain Victor T. Springer and Chief Engineer Thomas J. Bov) discharged part of her cargo at Sfax. Tunisia. April 8 and was given an official w-elcome by Tunisian and Lb S. AID officials when she docked at Goulette i near Tunis ) on the 11th. She is the first Lb S. flag tanker to call at that port since W'orld War II. Our Traffic Dept, has negotiated another Caribbean-Tunisian voyage for the Scranton after this one. The Esso Jacksonville, on her second round-theworld voyage, arrived at Pearl Harbor. April 11 and is due at San Pedro on the 18th and Beaumont about May 3. She left Baytown. Feb. 1. spent five davs at Bombay and Karachi (March 1-5 and 7-12) and left Bahrein in the Persian Gulf on the 16th. Captain William Hamilton reported from Bahrein that "everything going along nor mally so far''. We have a letter from a man who asks "are the Mates supposed to issue a pair of rubber A "Gallant Ship" award, the highest citation the Lb S. Government can bestow upon a mer- I# EXX-MOR-007380 copif.i) from the ecJi.LErnoNs in the center for American HisToif THE UNIVERSITY O F TEX AS A T A U S T IN This is one of the Esso Miami's four "Oldman" uni versal chocks in which Chief Engineer Max D. Petersen installed a steel retainer ring (painted white). The ring is made of Vs th-inch flat iron, on the outside of which a strip of Neoprene rubber was riveted. Four clips hold the assembly in place. The purpose of the strap is to press the rubber ring firmly against the side of the chock. It prevents salt water from washing out grease around the ball bear ings on which the inner part of the chock turns. Mr. Petersen did some scientific calculating to form the straps to correct size. He used the formula C = -D; where C = circumference, -=3.1416 and D = di ameter. Remember? chant ship, is to be made to the Lykes Bros, freighter Dolly Turman by the Maritime Admin istration. In addition, a unit citation goes to the entire crew, and the Master and the ten seamen in her lifeboat crew will receive Merchant Marine Meritorious Sendee Medals. {'Captain Arthur W. Smith and eight officers and seamen of the Esso Bethlehem were awarded the medals in 1961 for the rescue of five persons from the yacht Dutch Treat on May 2. 1960.) On Oct. 26. 1961 the Dolly Turman's lifeboat transferred the entire 47-man crew of the Fukuzan Maru to their own vessel in mountainous seas on the edge of a typhoon. Shortly after the rescue, an explosion rocked the Japanese vessel and she went down within two minutes. A Sikorsky turbine-powered, boat-hulled helicopter, one of 28 ordered by the Coast Guard in a modern ization and expansion program. The new aircraft will replace overage piston types and form new detach ments to provide complete search and rescue coverage of the U. S. coastline. New helicopter stations are slated for Savannah in July and Galveston next fall. Service -- With a Pleasant Expression It's always a pleasure to watch a good man work-- whether he is a Master on the bridge, an AB splicing a line or, yes. a messman waiting on tables. They all have at least one thing in common--compe tence. and usually a little some thing extra. We'd put Messman Bobert -y Robert N. Scott N. Scott, of the Esso Miami, in this class--compe tent. with something extra. In his case the extra is cheerfulness. "You have got to like serving people." Scotty says, and he obviously does. He makes vou feel welcome when you enter the messroom: gives you a smile and a few pleasant words. But then. Scotty should know his business. He went to sea from his native Glasgow at age 12^. in the Donaldson Line's Cassandra. He was Cap tain's boy (Captain's tiger, they called it) when our late Steward Richard (Oxtail) Taylor was second chef. That was in 1914. Scotty also sailed with the Anchor and Cunard lines as first class waiter until 1929. when he came to this country. He worked as an electro plater for the General Electric Co. in Bloomfield, N. J. until Dec. 1948. then went to sea again as Utilityman in the Esso Buffalo. He has been in our Steward's Dept, ever since. Mr. Scott and his childhood sweetheart, Doro thy. were married in 1927 and now live in Hopelawn. N. J. They have a daughter and three grandchildren. Getting back to Scotty's philosophy that you've got to like serving people--aren't we all serving people in this business? Sure, from the man at tire gasoline pump to the man at the drilling rig. Stock Purchase Pool Makes First Quarter Distribution Employee Thrift accounts have been credited with 54.673 shares of Standard Oil Co. (N. J.) stock as a result of pool purchase distributions for the first three months of 1963. Cost per share of stock was $60.58. the average price of shares in the pool at the end of the quarter. ESSO FLEET NEWS is published for the seagoing em ployees of the Marine Division. Humble Oil & Refining Co.: Joseph Andreae. General Manager: Sydney Wire. Assistant General Manager. TV. E. Gardner. Editor. Contributions and suggestions are invited and should be addressed to The Editor. Esso Fleet News. Humble Oil & Refining Co.. P. O. Box 1512. Houston 1. Texas. U EXX-MOR-007381 COPIF/J FROM THE COLLECTIONS IN THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN HP Allocations by some 10.500 Humble employees who purchased Company stock on regular sched ule during the quarter totaled $3,312,090.34. Early Retirement's Up to 157 Since March 1.19 additional men have accepted the Company's Special Voluntary Early Retire ment Offer, bringing the net total of such accep tances to 157. During the same period, two men (Second Mate Luman Poole and Second Cook An tonio Penha) retracted previous acceptances, mak ing 125 rejections received. The new prospective annuitants, with ranks and months in which retirement becomes effective are: Deck Officer Leary, Elbert 2nd M Radio Officer Curry, Joseph A. Engine Officers Stringer, Harry K. Boitano, Albino A. Bordelon, Emoor S. Bowen, Neal Price, Francis 1st 2nd 3rd 3rd 3rd Chief Steward Garcia, James' 7 Unlicensed, Deck Soderland, John G. Bosn Abbott, Samuel T. AB McClelland, Charles W. AB Unlicensed, Engine Bumgarner, Jacob H. Pump Hutson, Furman R. FWT Thorpe, Carl FWT Steward's Dept. Gomes, Victor Ch Ck Aguilar, Francisco 2nd Ck Bonner, Calvin MM Kelly, James F. UM Weaver, Joseph F. MM Baytown Job Placement Center Closed The Job Placement Center at the Bavtown Re finery's Community Building No. 2 was closed on April 1 because of the small number of re quests for assistance in finding new jobs. W. A. Scott, who spent several months at the Center, has returned to the Seagoing Personnel Office at the gate to the docks. During his placement work. Mr. Scott found 45 jobs for 43 seagoing men (two men were placed twice). He will continue to keep in touch with employment opportunities for the benefit of employees and annuitants who want assistance. 30 Yea rs' Service Port Steward DeWitt A. Hodges March 12, 1963 Repair Inspector John B. Ireland, Jr. January 7, 1963 mmmmmxmTARAll TALK* Third Mate Paul W. Leatherman returned to the U. S. Public Health Sendee Hospital. Balti more, Md.. on April 1 for an extended stay. Mrs. Leatherman writes that he would appreciate hear ing from his friends and shipmates. Lawrence F. Walsh, who sailed as a Purser from 1948-51 and worked in the Operating and Traffic depts. for nearly 12 years, retired on April 1. He is now working for a ship broker in New York. *** A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty, the goodness, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul.--Thomas Dreier SERVICE EMBLEM AWARDS 30 YEARS # EXX-MOR-007382 RECENT RETIREMENTS ssrsarTM Second Asst. Engineer Travis W. McCary retired from the Com pany on March 1 with 15 years' service but he plans to continue going to sea for five more years. Then he intends to retire again and raise cattle. He has a 200-acre farm in Center, Texas and 40 head of Charolais cattle. All of Mr. McCary's service was in licensed Engine Dept, ranks. He came into the fleet as Chief Engineer in the Fort Rob inson, which was purchased by the Company in Feb. 1948 and renamed Esso Binghamton. For several years he sailed as First Asst, and Chief Engineer and had five special assignments as Advisory Chief. Mr. McCary and his wife, Mildred, have a daughter, 18 and a son, 15. Third Asst. Engineer Allen Creech. Perhaps it was three years in the Army (1924-27) that made Mr. Creech decide on a seagoing career. He joined the J. M. Danziger as OS in Jan. 1933, was Wiper, Fireman and Oiler in the Beacon and, by June, 1938, Third Asst, in the T. C. McCobb. He sailed throughout the War as Second and First Asst., spending nearly two years in the Dartmouth. After three years ashore as a stationary engineer, Mr. Creech rejoined the fleet in Dec. 1949 and until his retirement, March 1, served mostly as Third and Second Asst. He and his wife, Patricia, live in Bay onne, N. J. Bos'n Alexander F. Lange was born in Russia and was an arc welder in China from 1928 to 1940. He worked for a welding concern and a shipyard in Shanghai and for the Tsingtao and the Canton & Hong Kong railroads. Alex first went to sea as a coal passer in the Greek ship Victoria in May, 1940 and survived the torpedoing of that vessel off Lon don seven months later. After two more wartime years in a Swedish vessel, he joined Esso on June 4, 1943 as AB in the Beaconoil. He served 16 months in that ship and 15 months in his next, the W. H. Libby. He was Bos'n for 16 years prior to his retirement March 1 with nearly 20 years of credited service. Residents of Staten Island, N. Y., Mr. and Mrs. Lange have two children, Alexander, 13 and Linda Ann, 10. Chief Cook Rafael M. Nilo was 15 years old in 1914 when his mother sent him to Manila to go to school. Instead, he went to work as a longshoreman and then signed on in an American schoon er bound for Australia. After the ship was wrecked in the Solomon Islands, Mr. Nilo got another sail ing vessel to California, where he shipped out in U. S. Shipping Board, Standard of Calif, and American Hawaiian vessels. Mr. Nilo had 24 years in the fleet. His service was continuous as Chief Cook from Dec. 1939 and included 11 vessels during World War II. Since retiring March 1, he has moved from New York City to Phoenix, Arizona. MM/'Second Pumpman Jessie A. Schooling, a resident of Balti more, started his 19 year career with the Company in the G. Har rison Smith. He sailed as Wiper, FWT, Oiler and Storekeeper for 24 months in that vessel between 1942-44. He was also Oiler in four other vessels during the War years. From Aug. 1952 until his retirement on Feb. 1, he served as MM/2nd Pumpman and Oiler, the Esso Greenville. most recently in Oiler Louis Marot retired March 1, 41 years after he signed on in his first Company tanker, the John D. Rockefeller. He was in and out of the fleet during the 1920s and early 30s but sailed con tinuously as Oiler from Aug. 1934 on, for a total of 32 years of credited service. __ Mr. Marot was a survivor of the torpedoed Esso Aruba on Aug. 28, 1942 and continued throughout the War in the Fred W. Weller and Beacon. His last ships before retiring to his home in West New York, N. J. were the Esso Dallas and Esso Huntington. Second Cook Braulio L. Villa nueva. Born in the Philippine Is lands 65 years ago, Mr. Villanueva was a school teacher before he decided to be a seaman. He started with Standard of Calif, in 1924, served nine years in the U. S. Coast Guard before and during the Second World War and also sailed in several dry cargo ships and tankers. His 15 years of con tinuous service in the Esso fleet -- beginning with the Esso Bridgeport in Feb. 1948 and ending with his retirement, March 1 -- was as Second and Chief Cook. Mr. Villanueva and his wife. Maria, live in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. They have a daughter, Gloria (married to a U. S. Army Captain) and two sons, Pedro and Raul. Messman Rudolph Taylor retired Feb. 1 with 24 years in the Stew ard's Dept. The H. H. Rogers was his first ship (Dec. 1937) and he served continuously until May 1945, shipping out in eight ves sels during the War. He returned as Second Cook in the Esso Raleigh in March 1946 and has been Messman and Utilityman for the past 11 years. Mr. Taylor was born in England and makes his home in New York City.