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need help identifying tanker
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 5:29 pm
by chrisl
can anyone assist in identifying the tanker in this photo. its on a Welland Canal postcard . stack seems to be white in centre and blue bottom and tip . looks like the name is an initial and surname on the hull. Steamer in background is old . guessing the photo is 1960's vintage.
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:07 pm
by chrisl
by the way... if you saw a canal boat with that little freeboard today you'd think it was sinking.
Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 7:44 am
by Paul Beesley
Sorry, can't id the ship. Looks like the photo was taken from Lock 3 looking north toward the Homer Bridge. Before the Skyway was built so early 1963 or previous to that year.
Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 5:19 pm
by Brian Bernard
That is the Oil Transporter. At the time the photo was taken she would have been owned by Gayport Shipping Limited. Hall Shipping purchased the assets of Gayport Shipping in 1959. Oil Transporter was renamed Oil Transport in the same year. So this photo was taken between 1951 and 1959.
The link to BGSU shows the vessel in her early years in her original configuration. https://greatlakes.bgsu.edu/item/440278
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:16 pm
by oreboat82
Looks to me like that is the Eva Desgagnes.