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SS Marine Sulphur Queen, formally Esso New Haven, was a T2 tanker converted to carry molten sulphur. It is notable for its disappearance in 1963 near the southern coast of Florida, taking the lives of 39 crewmen. In the investigation, the Coast Guard determined that the ship was unsafe and not seaworthy, and never should have sailed.
In 1956 with the Suez crisis Esso Cumberland was acquired by the Navy and assigned to the Military Sealift Command as USNS Cumberland (T-AO-153). In 1966, Cumberland was converted by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company to a floating electric power supply ship for use in South Vietnam by the United States Army .
The Esso Refinery at Milford Haven was an oil refinery situated on the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales. Construction started in 1957 and the refinery was opened in 1960 by the Duke of Edinburgh . [ 1 ] Construction cost £18 million and the refinery had the initial capacity to process 4.5 million tons of crude oil a year.
War Emergency Tankers of New York City was founded in 1942 to operate Fleet oilers for the United States Navy to support World War II efforts. Texaco, Standard Oil Company and other oil companies enter into a joint venture to form War Emergency Tankers Inc. War Emergency Tankers operated a fleet of tankers for the War Shipping Administration.
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Esso is ExxonMobil's primary motor fuel brand worldwide except in Australia, Guam, Mexico, Nigeria, and New Zealand, where the Mobil brand is used exclusively. In Canada (since 2017), Colombia, Egypt, and formerly Malaysia (until 2013, when Petron (the former Esso Philippines) acquired ExxonMobil's Malaysian operations) [ 29 ] and Japan (until ...