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. [1]

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 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 ...

2019年1月27日 · The damaged tanker SS Ohio, supported by Royal Navy destroyers HMS Penn (left) and Ledbury (right). The British however were ready for this and and more than willing to send salvage crews down to pump out her lifeblood of oil. Working nonstop and sometimes while under aerial attack, they were able to create connections to the swiftly sinking ...

6 20 mm naval Oerlikons Nickname: "OH 10" }} The SS Ohio was an oil tanker built for the Texas Oil Company, (now Texaco). The ship was launched on 20 April 1940 at the Sun Shipbuilding Yard in Chester, Pennsylvania. She was requisitioned by the Allied forces to re-supply the island fortress of Malta, during the Second World War. [1] .

The tanker SS Ohio was launched on April 20, 1940 at Sun Shipbuilding Yard in Chester, Pennsylvania for Texas Oil Company (now Texaco). In anticipation of war and due to unofficial conversations between the American military and the oil company, the Ohio was the largest tanker built at that time.

2020年5月10日 · Twenty minutes later eight Italian Ju-87s covered by MC-202 fighters harried the damaged Ohio, which blasted two Stukas out of the sky—only for a crashing dive bomber to bounce up from the ocean...

The SS Ohio was built in a Pennsylvania shipyard for the Texaco Oil Company and was completed in 1942. She was an oil tanker of 10,000 tons deadweight and capable of a speed of 19 knots. She was the largest Tanker built at that time.

2010年10月23日 · The steamship OHIO was built for Norddeutscher Lloyd by Caird & Co, Greenock (yard #148), and was launched on 18 December 1868. 2,393 tons; 92,05 x 12,02 meters (length x breadth); clipper bow, 1 funnel, 2 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, single-expansion engine, service speed 10 knots; accommodation for 84 …

2022年8月14日 · Fourteen merchant ships had set out for Malta with Operation Pedestal on the 10th August - only five had survived the repeated German and Italian attacks. The most important ship in the convoy was the oil tanker SS Ohio, an American ship with a British crew, defensively armed with a 5 inch and a 3 inch gun.