An item dated Vlissingen, Netherlands the 15th reported that the steam tanker La Hesbaye underway from Antwerp, Belgium arrived there on the roads with a defect rudder. She was however able to continue her voyage the next morning at 08.30 o’clock.(1)
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1. This item was apparently not published in a local newspaper. The Vlissingse Courant dated 26 May 1908 did mention a Dutch steam tanker La Hesbay which coming from Antwerp on which Saturday night fire broke out in the coal bunkers. She anchored off Vinkenisse where the crew succeeded in extinguishing the fire. After a inspection was she able to continue her voyage on the 25th towards Philadelphia. 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.
