ESSO NORTHUMBRIA

BUILT AT SWAN HUNTERS YARD IN WALLSEND SHE WAS LAUNCHED ON 2ND MAY 1969 BY PRINCESS ANNE FOR ESSO PETROLEUM.SHE WAS REGISTERED IN LONDON. HER RADIO CALLSIGN WAS 'GZJE '. SHE WAS 253,000 TONS.SHE WAS SISTER SHIP TO 'ESSO HIBERNIA' AND WAS THE BIGGEST VESSEL BUILT IN THE U.K. WHEN SHE WAS LAUNCHED THE LOCAL SCHOOL CHILDREN WERE GIVEN THE DAY OF TO GO AND WATCH HER BEING LAUNCHED. I JOINED THIS VESSEL AT ANCHORAGE IN LE HARVE IN JUNE 1974 AND DID ONE TRIP ON HER UP TO RASTANURA,SAUDI ARABIA VIA THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, AND PAID OF HER IN MILFORD HAVEN ABOUT FOUR MONTHS LATER. ESSO NORTHUMBRIA WAS DELIVERED TO KAOSHIUNG, TAIWAN IN MAY 1982 AND WAS SCRAPPED.