Try Auk Vissers site for details of the Lago Oil (Esso) ships.
http://www.aukevisser.nl/others/id30.htm

 

Lago Oil Company...



Dave....

Lago Oil Company was originally formed by Andrew Weir & Co and you can find out all about that phase in the company's existence in the Bank Line entries in Ships Nostalgia Directory section. The operation was sold to Standard Oil (Esso/Exxon) in 1936 which is the time frame you are looking for.

Many of the shallow draft twin-screw steamers were built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast and registered in Glasgow and British officers were employed. There was a company 'enclave' ashore in Aruba for officers in the refinery and aboard the ships to have their wives and families nearby. Google Lago Oil for a web site that do***ents the Esso period when it was "Americanized".
Alistair Macnab

 

Thanks BlythSpirit, my daughter had also found this site and ships photo,and I have found other sites with info.
Dave

 

Thanks Alistair, You filled in the connection between Lago Oil and Andrew Weir. I had found that Lago was listed as owner and Weir the manager. The three tankers I am tracking are registered London. Have their history.
Lago Oil Refinery and Standard Oil make interesting reading.
Dave

 

My father, acting on behalf of his employers Union Carbide corp. and its subsidiary Challenger Shipping co, had two of the Lago tankers converted in Curacao from steam to diesel and the bridge moved to the stern. These shallow-draft ships, the "Inverrosa" and the "Ambrosio" were then used to shuttle manganese ore from Port Kaituma in Guyana to Chaguaramas in Trinidad. I was allowed to work on the "Ambrosio" on several voyages in my teens, chipping rust etc. as a deck hand.