Built by New York Shipbuilding Corp, Camden, N J, for Socony Vacuum Oil Co, New York; length oa 500 ft 1 1/2 in.; beam molded 65 ft 9 in.; depth to upper deck at side molded 37 ft; propelling machinery consists of De Lavel double-reduction geared turbine designed to develop 4000 shp at 75 rpm; steam supplied by three Foster Wheeler A type oil-fired water-tube boilers. (See also Mar Eng and Shipg Age v 40 n 5 May 1935 p 172-6 and 197 and Mar Engr v 58 n 695 Aug 1935 p 204-8)
Ocean-going tanker Socony-vacuum
Naut Gaz
Nautical Gazette ; 125 , n 9
1935
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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Ocean-going tanker Socony-vacuum
Engineering Index Backfile | 1935
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Chicago Socony-versatile tanker
Engineering Index Backfile | 1953
Chicago Socony-versatile tanker
Engineering Index Backfile | 1953
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Engineering Index Backfile | 1953