| LAKE TANKER PHOTOS |
| These photos were supplied by Bryan
McCall, Mary B. Spitzer, Alex Miller, Colin Craig and Renton Kidd. |
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| The next photo is the
same as the one above with the color removed and cropped |
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| The next lake tanker
Invercaibo was taken out of service as a lake tanker and converted to a
dredge to clear the bar that blocked the entrance to Lake Maracaibo.
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On April 30, 1951
Invercaibo was taken out of service completely and she just faded away
as outlined in the article below. |
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Invercaibo was built in
1925 and served on the lake tanker fleet until 1938 when she was sent to
Newport News, Virginia and converted to a dredge. She worked as a
dredge until 1951 when she was taken out of service. She served
Lago for 26 years. |
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This is the picture of
the ship cropped from the article in the
Aruba Esso News, seen
above. |
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| Lake Tankers in Lake
Maracaibo |
| I cropped the photo
above so you could better see the group of Lake Tankers |
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much better |
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| Lake Tankers
"HOOIBERG" in San Nicholas Harbor |
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| Lake Tankers
"PEDERNALES" at sea |
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| A shortened Pedernalas makes her
way to Baltimore for a new mid-section. |
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| Invergoil |
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| Inverlago |
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drawing of the Inverlago in the book seen below. |
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| The full page about
the ship is shown below. Some of this information does not
correspond with what Arke Visser says about the ship on his web site: http://www.aukevisser.nl/
I am inclined to think that Arke is probably correct. |
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| Punta Gorda |
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| San Carlos |
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| Looking forward from
the aft to mid-ship, this also is an unidentified Lake Tanker |
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| Invercaibo |
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| Tia Juana, with her bow pushed in. |
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| Unidentified Lake
Tanker |
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| Unidentified Lake
Tanker |
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| Lake Tankers tied up
at pier in Venezuela |
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| Name of this Lake
Tanker is not known. I know the photograph was taken from the
"TRUJILLO" |
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| Walt Spitzer on bridge
of Trujillo & looking aft on the Trujillo |
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| From the bridge
of Trujillo & looking aft |
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| Unknown? This
photo was taken by Paul Jensen probably in the very early 1930's. |
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| Great shot of the
Pedernales sent in by Renton Kidd |
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| Another great shot,
this is the Yamanota also sent in by Renton Kidd |
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| It seems that some
enterprising photographer would sit in this location and photograph
ships as they entered Havana Harbor in Cuba. Then he would go
home, process the photo and then sell the prints to the officer s and
crew of the ships he had photographed. These are two examples of
his handy work. One is the Bachaquero and the other is the
Inverlago. Both Lake Tankers, although of a slightly different
design. |
| THE ESSO BACHAQUETRO |
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This view of the entering Havana was sent in by Bryan McCall. |
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The second photo is
one I cropped from the first photo. This was done to show a better
view of the Lake Tanker "BACHAQUERO". |
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These photos below were sent in by Sonya
A. Brittingham, Class of '53 and her father, Captain Ernest Armstrong is
the Captain. |
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This first photo is also one I cropped
and tried to clean up but it is not as good as the original, below. |
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| It seems the
photographer liked to get the ship as well as the fort in the photo.
This seems to be the case in both ship photos before they were cropped. |
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| THE END OF AN ERA |
| This is the story that
appeared in the December 18, 1954 issue of the Aruba Esso News about the
last of the Lake Tankers being fazed out. From 1924 to 1954, 30
years, over 60 ships helped to supply the crude oil to the Lago
refinery. |
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