wasson

Chevron VLCC 1st sea trial, Nagasaki July 1970

American name, American oil company(Standard Oil of California), London on the stern.

On watch on E HORNSBY WASSON, 216,626tons dwt. August 1977. On passage Ras Tanura to Savona.

One of Chevron's first VLCC's E Hornsby Wasson, built 1970, 214,200tons dwt, 1070ft long, 160ft beam. Her sister was James E O'Brien built 1969. Both completed in Japan. Both ships were UK flag if I remember correctly and managed by Chevron Tankship UK in Croydon, London for whom I worked from 1975