Esso Gettysburg, Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Benicia, Solano County, CA

STORED ON SITE. mchr
Significance: The Esso Gettysburg was a typical mid-1950s American-flag tanker built for the coastal shipment of petroleum products. Although hailed as the American registry's biggest and fastest tanker when new, the ship was but one step in the broader trend toward ever larger oil tankers that world petroleum consumption encouraged in the decades after World War II. The ship's three-decade-long work-a-day career was marred by a January 1971 grounding when 385,000 gallons of heating oil spilled into Long Island Sound.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1338
Survey number: HAER CA-354
Building/structure dates: 1956-1957 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1971 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 2010 Demolished