Down bound in the St. Clair River, 3 September 2008
With courtesy of Willem van Maanen
USA-flagged, IMO 5234395, MMSI 36712020 and call sign WDD2877. Ex-Marquette 1942, Neshanic 1942-1947, Gulfoil 1947-1961 of Gulf Oil Company, Pioneer Challenger 1961-1962 of Pioneer Steamship Co. (Hutchinson&Co. mgrs.), Middletown 1962-28 June 006 of the Columbian Transportation Division of Ogleby Norton , Company, American Victory 2006-2018, Victo 2018 and Icto 2018. Laid up between 2008-2017. Sold by the American Steamship Company end December 2017 to Algoma Central Corporation of St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada and departed on 30 July 2018 Montreal, Canada and towed to Aliaga, Turkey to be broken up. Launched by Bethlehems Steel Corporation, Sparrows Point, Maryland, USA on Saturday 31 October 1942 as a US Navy tanker, commissioned as the USS Neshanic (AO-71) in April 1943, decommissioned in December 1945. After a collision on 7 August 1958 rebuilt as a straight deck bulk carrier.
