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PUBLISHED BY THE MARINE DEPARTMENT.' HUMBLE OlU'&`REF!NING COMPANY " Volume 13, Number 20 October 11, 1971 Ships Set Turnaround Records Two ships set new turnaround records for vessels in the 40,000dwt class in September The Esso Lexington arrived at Baytown Refinery at 2235 on September 21, and 13.2 hours later she cast off her last line, headed for Bayway with some 295,000 barrels of mixed crude The Esso Washington, after dis charging crude and PGO at Bay- way, departed for the Baytown docks, arriving there at 1135 on September 25 to load 286,000 bar rels of Esso heat medium. In just a fraction over 12 hours after ar riving at Baytown, she left the dock on her way to NorthviHe, Long Island. Officers and crews in both ships had all tanks, lines, and other equipment ready for hookup im- mediately upon arrival at Baytown. Shoreside personnel there were ready and waiting to make the hookups and start pumping prod ucts As a result of these opera tions, each vessel was able to shave about seven hours off its previous average turnaround time. Captain Tom Lawton is master of the Lexington and Herbert Trenoweth is chief mate Captain William Fa I vo is master of the Washington and Joe Von Stultz is chief mate `San Francisco' In Service 'Esso Dallas' Sold On October 8The Esso San Francisco, sched uled to depart Sun Shipyard in The Esso Dallas, after discharg Captain Bob Stap as master and Chester, Pennsylvania, on Sep ing grain at Pusan, Korea, left Jack Stillman as chief mate, was tember 24, did not leave there until there on September 29 for Singa the first for the veteran tanker October 2, The delay was caused pore where she was transferred to which had carried more than 125 mainly by the magnitude of a coat her new owner, Esso Transport million barrels of crude oil and ing repair job in the forepeak tank Company, Inc. on October 8. Esso products in her career. She was which required a great deal of Transport plans to use the ship in mostly in East Coast trade The staging and sandblasting. Removal western hemisphere trade, operat Dallas, along with the Esso New of sand from the sandblasting ing mostly out of Caribbean ports. York and the Esso Miami, all in operation further delayed the ship. The grain trip to Pusan, with the 28,000-dwt class, was built in 1950 at Newport News, Virginia. r Tape Used To Protect Navigation Charts Only one other tanker currently in service in the fleet is older than the Dallas and her two sister New ideas are always welcome ships. This is the Esso Lima, built in the fleet, and here's one thought in 1949. up by Wesley F. Besse, Jr.., third The Esso Dallas is the second mate in the Esso Baltimore. Mr ship sold this year The other, the Besse is shown here applying a Enco Gloucester, was sold on Au 1-inch-wide strip of Scotch tape gust 11 (the kind you can write on) to the The sale of the Dallas, which permanent course lines on a navi brings the fleet more in balance gation chart. This makes the chart with the current supply and de last longer as marks made on the mand situation, leaves Humble tape can be erased. Also, dividers with 19 oceangoing tankers which do not tear the chart. He also it owns, and one which the com applies tape to the latitude mea pany operates, the Esso Seattle surement scale on the side of the Personnel assigned to the Dallas chart to protect it from divider were flown back to the states pin holes A very clever idea and where most went on paid leave. one that others may like to try. The rest were reassigned EXX-MOR-003850 Their Job: Looking For Trouble Looking for equipment trouble --that's part of their job It's also part of their work to see that any trouble relating to breakdowns reported by ships' officers is remedied quickly, effi ciently, safely, and properly. Who does all of this? Humble's five Marine repair inspectors, all experts in their profession and all carefully selected for the vital job of keeping the company's fleet of tankers on the go with a minimum of costly delays or downtimes. Although they see that repairs are made properly after something breaks down, they spend much of their time in preventive mainte nance work-looking for possible sources of trouble and eliminating them before they have a chance to develop In performing their preventive maintenance duties and supervising repair work, they are on call day and night, traveling thousands of miles a year by land, sea, and air to board company vessels at various ports of call During the course of their work, they inspect everything, including cargo, communications, and elec trical systems; hulls; boilers; tur bines; propellers; and food stor age equipment. In addition to carrying out Marine Department regulations while performing their jobs and making ship repairs, they work with shipyard personnel, American Bureau of Shipping sur veyors, the U S. Coast Guard, and others during surveys and inspec tions which involve our vessels. John Ireland, the senior mem ber of Humble's inspection team, joined the company in October, 1932, as a wiper. He later advanced to fireman, then through the engi neering ranks, sailing as chief engineer for the first time in 1946, On April 15, 1952, he transferred to shoreside operations as a con struction inspector for Humble at Newport News, Virginia. He later served as Humble's construction superintendent at Avondale Ship yards in Louisiana during the con struction of the Esso San Fran cisco, the Esso Baton Rouge, and the Esso Philadelphia, the three largest coastal tankers ever built in the United States. Ed J Worrel, Jr,, was employed by the Marine Department as a construction inspector in May, 1969, He has many years of ex perience as a shipyard engineer ing inspector. In 1932, he joined Southern Pacific Steamship Com pany in New York where he ob tained his chief engineer's rating. He resigned from this company in 1937 to sail on larger vessels in this same rating with the Ameri can Oil Company. In 1940, Mr. Worrel joined the Hartford Steam Boiler insurance Company as an engineering inspector, resigning from this position in 1942 to join the U,S,, Coast Guard where he served until he retired as a cap tain in 1969. He joined Humble's Marine Department in May of that same year as a construction in spector (he also served with John Ireland when the company's three largest tankers w Avondale) and t inspector in July, Tony Koeleme ble's Marine De; uary, 1971, as a From 1954 to 196 the Netherland pany in Holland as snips engi neer From 1960 to 1966, he served as staff supervisor at a ship repair yard in Rotterdam, then he joined Goodyear's engineering division in Toronto, Canada After serving there for about two years, he be came a staff supervisor at Sun Shipyard in Chester, Pennsylvania, the position he held when he was employed by Humble Karl Peters, with some 25 years of ship-board experience, was chief engineer with American Trad ing and Production Corporation in New York He served as a repair inspector at various times during his career with this company. He retired in early 1971, Mr. Peters joined Humble as a Marine De partment repair inspector on March 1. Warren Ashwell is the newest repair inspector in the Humble Marine Department. He served in the Engine Department in ships of the Grace Line from 1944 to 1947. He then joined Gulf and South American Steamship Company as a third assistant engineer and later became chief engineer. In 1952, he was named repair inspector for this same company, and in 1968, he was promoted to supervisor of the Maintenance and Repair Sec tion. He was employed by Humble on September 28, 1971. Teagle Scholarship Award Thomas Olsen, son of Toralf Olsen, tug captain in the New York Branch, inland waterways opera tions, has received a scholarship from the Teagle Foundation to at tend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he has been accepted in the School of Science He was salutatorian in a class of 795 students graduating last June from the Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn, New York Page 2 Esso Fleet News COPIFfJ Fit CM THE CGfLlECTtONS THE UNtVERStT' EXX-MOR-003851 RETIREMENTS Four employees, representing a total of nearly 80 years of service in the fleet, retired on October 1. Of this number, ROY O BERG, chief mate, retired with the longest service--some 23 years. He was employed in January, 1948, as third mate in the A. C Bedford. In July, 1948, he became the sec ond mate in the Wallace Pratt, and advanced to chief mate in July, 1951, while assigned to the Queenston Heights. His last ship was the Esso Gettysburg. He lives in Rockport, Massachusetts KARL B. TRICKEL joined Humble in 1955 as utilityman in the Esso Huntington. In January, 1956, he sailed as OS in the Esso Brooklyn and advanced to AB in February, 1967. His last ship before retiring as AB was the Esso Houston He lives in Rahway, New Jersey. ROBERT ENDRES retired as radio officer in the Esso San Francisco. He had been regularly assigned to this vessel since January, 1970 He was employed by the company as a radio officer in 1951. While enroute from Boston to Chester, Pennsylvania on September 1, a group of Mr. Entires' friends gathered to wish him a happy retirement life. Cap tain R. J. Boxwell, second from the right, is shown presenting a cash gift to the chess-playing radio officer. The gift was from shipmates in the San Francisco and in other vessels in which Mr Endres served. A message was also sent to Mrs Endres stating that Bob would be home soon and wishing them a long, happy retirement life. The couple plans to buy camping equipment and spend much time under the stars. They live in Baytown, Texas. Four Ships Delayed Four oceangoing tankers were significantly delayed by long lived Hurricane Ginger as she roared her way through an area south of Cape Hatleras. The Esso Baltimore was delayed more than 80 hours when, starting on September 29, she encountered high seas, driv ing rain, and gale-force winds. She hove to several times with her screw turning as low as 22 rpm Other vessels forced to take eva sive action, causing them to reach their destinations late, were the Esso Washington, delayed 43 hours, and the Esso Philadelphia, delayed 42 hours. The Esso Chester, in port at Charleston, de layed her departure by 19 hours to miss Hurricane Ginger, None of the delays caused any serious supply or rescheduling problems. Last Lost-Time Injury in Esso Fleet September 15 Shipmates in the Esso Lima cele brated KOLBJORN HANSEN's re tirement twice--once on deck (above) when they gathered to present a gift from the officers and crew (with Captain William J. Falvo doing the honors) and again when just before supper he was sur prised by the presentation of a specially-baked, colorfully-deco rated cake baked by Chief Cook John Abshire and Baker Jose Oliveira AB Hansen is shown at right holding the cake as Chief Cook Abshire and OS Manual DeBrito, left, look on. Mr, Hansen was employed as AB in the Esso Greenville in July, 1951. He lives in Pawtucket, Rhode Island October 11, 1971 Page 3 ! I L COPIED FROM THE CGlJ.LECTIONS IN THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN HiSTO THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS a t aiictiw EXX-MOR-003852 OBITUARY PHILIP PFENDER, messman, died on September 23 at Atlanta, Georgia, He was 66. Mr. Pfender was born in Germany and came to this country shortly before WWII. He joined the U.S. Army in 1941, obtained his citizenship while in the service, and joined Humble in 1951 His first assign ment was messman in the Esso Shreveport. He sailed in the Stew ard's Department until his retire ment in April, 1970. He is survived by his widow of Riverdale, Georgia. FRANCISCO T,, BARROS, 71, died in St, Luke's hospital at New Bed ford, Massachusetts on September 18. He started his seagoing career as second cook in the Christy Payne in June, 1937, and served as chief cook in various vessels for the last 19 years of his nearly 23 years of service ALEXANDER PRATT, who retired from the fleet as chief engineer in December, 1957, died at age 71 on August 31 at Miami, Florida. He joined the company as wiper in the F O Barstow on April 30, 1929, and sailed in various un licensed ratings until obtaining his third assistant license His first assignment in a licensed capacity was in the W. H. Tilford in Novem ber, 1931. Mr. Pratt sailed con tinuously as chief engineer from May, 1947, until his retirement. His last vessel was the Esso Washing ton He is survived by his widow. THE ACCOMPANYING PHOTOGRAPHS are part of a collection brought back to the states by Captain Ed Mahoney who served as expediter in the Esso Houston during grain discharging operations in India recently The picture at left shows a cook and his helper who set up cooking pots on deck to feed the large number of Indian stevedores, mechanics, and machine operators who came aboard soon after the Houston dropped anchor at Pondicherry. At one time, nearly 300 men had established living quarters on the deck where they worked, slept, and ate. For food, they brought large quantities of rice, mutton, chicken, and fish curry. Part of the 62,700 tons of grain was discharged at Pondicherry, after which the Houston moved to Saugor Roads at one of the mouths of the Hooghly River, about 85 miles south of Calcutta, to discharge the rest of the cargo. "The Indian crew of stevedores, mechanics, and others did not remain on board the ship during the move," Captain Mahoney said. "They went ashore and traveled by rail to a point near Saugor Roads where they were picked up by ship and brought to the Houston to set up housekeeping all over again " At both locations, wheat was discharged into dry cargo vessels, as shown in the picture at right. "We were in port during the period of the "Bore" tides, some of which reached 23 feet in height, Local representatives said that these were the highest tides ever encountered here. Because of the ship's location, the incoming tides did not affect our operations, but we had to run our engines for three or four hours to hold position when ebb tides up to seven knots occurred, We also weathered several days in which sheets of blinding monsoon rains sent everybody scurrying for shelter. Men even crawled into the ship's tanks to escape the rain and wind," Captain Mahoney said. The Esso Houston is now enroute from Mena A! Ahmadi to Paulsboro under charter to Mobil. She is scheduled to arrive at Paulsboro about October 27. Captain Phi! Babcock is master of the Houston, Roy Ewel! is chief mate, and Colos Bennett is chief engineer. At Fleet News presstime, plans were being made to deliver stateside mail to ship's personnel by helicopter as the vessel passes Capetown, South Africa-- a service never before attempted by the Marine Department, except when the SS Manhattan was on her Arctic voyages. LENNES A TALBOT, died on September 17 at Baton Rouge, Louisiana He was 65 He retired as chief engineer In the Inland Waterways Fleet in July, 1963. Mr. Talbot joined the company as deckhand on December 16, 1922, and served in the old Lighterage Department's steam sternwheel towboats. He sailed in various un licensed and licensed capacities aboard the company's Mississippi River vessels and was promoted to chief engineer on September 1, 1944, His last vessel was the Esso Tennessee. Mr. Taibot is survived by his widow, two sons, and a daughter Page 4 Esso Fleet News EXX-MOR-003853