(1920) 1928 Panoil 1959 (1981)
Steel twin-screw tanker
Built at Violet LA by Alabama & New Orleans Transportation Co., Hull 26
Launched 1920
Built as Crudoil for Huasteca Petroleum Co., New Orleans LA. Renamed Panoil 1925 (str. Crudoil, which also came to the Great Lakes, was renamed from Panoil to Crudoil at the same time)
258’7” LOA, 242’6” LBP, 36’10” beam, 19’8” depth
1 deck, oil-fired boilers, 2 fore and aft compound engines, 900 IHP
Enrolled at
242.5 x 36.7 x 19.7, 1370 GT, 760 NT US 220487
Entered Great Lakes service 1928, owned by Huasteca Petroleum Co. in the oil trade from Buffalo NY to Toronto ON.
Sold 1931 to Great Lakes Transport Corporation, Detroit MI
Sold 1955 to Pure Oil Co., Chicago IL
Operated little if ever from 1951. Laid up at Nicholson Dock & Terminal Co., River Rouge MI and used for storing bunker fuel. Removed from documentation 1959.
Scrapped 1981 at River Rouge MI
See history in Great Lakes Ships We Remember III p. 285
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Scrapped in Ecorse Mich. It also had been used as dock extension letting the much larger Atlas Oil barges to tie up. NT&D is the location of Batman, and Transformer movies. St.Clair and Coulmbia Boblo Boats were later tied up at the same dock. The scene showing Fuel Oil Corp tank in “Texas” scene was a block west down Great Lakes Ave.in (River Rouge Mi.north side of Great Lakes Ave) Ecorse is on South side of GL Ave. Where Nicholson Terminal & Dock is. I know from working at Great Lakes Steel location for 54Years.