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SS Ohio was an oil tanker built for The Texas Company (later Texaco). The ship was launched on 20 April 1940 at the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in Chester, Pennsylvania . The United Kingdom requisitioned it to re-supply the island fortress of Malta during the Second World War .
SS Ohio was an iron passenger-cargo steamship built by William Cramp & Sons in 1872. The second of a series of four Pennsylvania-class vessels, Ohio and her three sister ships—Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois—were the largest iron ships ever built in the United States at the time of their construction, [1] and amongst the first to be fitted with compound steam engines.
SS Ohio was a tanker launched in 1940 by Sun Shipbuilding for the Texas Oil Company; figured prominently in Operation Pedestal, the Allied resupply of Malta in World War II. SS Ohio may also refer to the following ships: SS Ohio (1869), a Norddeutscher Lloyd passenger liner launched in 1869 by Caird & Company [1]
Francis Alonzo Dales (December 3, 1923 – March 29, 2003) was a cadet midshipman in the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy who served on the freighter SS Santa Elisa, and subsequently the tanker SS Ohio, during Operation Pedestal, a convoy to the besieged island of Malta in the Second World War.
Dudley Mason was born into a family in Surbiton.His father was a chauffeur. Mason went to school in Long Ditton before going to sea as an apprentice at 17 in June 1920 with Eagle Oil and Shipping Company with whom he qualified as a master mariner at age 30. [2]
A Victory ship of World War II Liberty ship of World War II. The Emergency Shipbuilding Program built many types of ships to support the war. The most numerous ships were the 2,710 cargo Liberty ships. [25] Liberty ships were built between 1941 and 1945, with a new module assembly process so that about three ships were built every two days. [26]
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The ships had an overall length of 345 feet (105.2 m), a beam of 35 feet (10.7 m) and a deep draught of 12 feet 3 inches (3.7 m). They were powered by two Parsons geared steam turbines , each driving one propeller shaft , using steam provided by two Admiralty three-drum boilers .