MAKE A MEME View Large Image Tanker Esso Manhattan off Brisbane in 1943.jpg Aerialview of the motor tanker Esso Manhattan She had been fitted with flying decks enabling her to carry seven motor torpedo boats PT boats as deck cargo which were off-loaded at Brisbane ...
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Keywords: Tanker Esso Manhattan off Brisbane in 1943.jpg Aerialview of the motor tanker Esso Manhattan She had been fitted with flying decks enabling her to carry seven motor torpedo boats PT boats as deck cargo which were off-loaded at Brisbane Australia in this case Note the 3 inch AA gun forward 5 inch gun aft and the 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns in the superstructure forward and aft <br> Esso Manhattan was a T2-SE-A1 tanker built at Sun Shipbuilding Company No 342 Chester Pennsylvania USA for Standard Oil of New Jersey She broke in two off New York on 29 March 1943 Both sections were towed in rejoined and returned to service June 1943 She was finally broken up at Hualien Taiwan in 1974 by Chou's Iron Steel Co Ltd 303272/01 1943-10-22 No 71 Squadron RAAF Image copyright Copyright expired - public domain frame cropped PD-Australia Esso Manhattan ship 1942 PT boats Pacific War in October 1943
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