These photographs were selected to show the original configuration of this class and major subsequent modifications. For more views see the former NHHC (now Hyperwar) Online Library of Selected Images and the NavSource Photo Archive.
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M/V Blue Sunoco
An artist's sketch of the ship as designed and built in 1928-1929.
This ship became USS Halawa (AOG-12) in 1942.
Photo No. None
Source: Marine Engineering and Shipping Age, April 1929, page 215.
M/V Blue Sunoco
Profile and deck plan of the ship as designed and built in 1928-1929.
Note the absence from this plan of any exhaust system for the main propulsion diesel engines.
Photo No. None
Source: Marine Engineering and Shipping Age, April 1929, page 216.