An item reported that on the 22nd the Dutch steam tanker La Hesbaye was hailed on 48 degrees North latitude and 27 degrees West longitude underway from Philadelphia, USA towards Amsterdam, Netherlands.(1)
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1. Callsign PHVY. Launched on 31 July 1888 as the Oevelgonne at the shipyard of Sir W.W.G. Armstrong Mitchell&Co. at Newcastle, England with yardnumber 521 for account of G.J.H. Siemers&Co. of Hamburg, Germany and commissioned on 15 October. Transferred on 27 May 1891 to the Deutsch Amerikanischen Petroleum Gesellschaft, Hamburg, since 3 August 1891 Netherlands flagged as the La Hesbaye (N.V. American Petroleum Company of Rotterdam, the predecessor of ESSO), since 1914 as the Panuco owned by the Freeport Tampico Fuel Oil Corporation of New York, since 1919 of the Sinclair Gulf Corporation of New York, since 1921 of the Sinclair Navigation Company Inc. of New York, since 1926 of the Tankers Corporation of New Orleans and finally broken up in 1927 at Baltimore. With a gross register tonnage of 2.539 tons, net tonnage of 1.872 tons, a deadweight of 3.500 tons and as dimensions 91,44 x 11,94 x 8,56 metres.
