LAKE TANKER PHOTOS
These photos were supplied by Bryan McCall, Mary B. Spitzer, Alex Miller, Colin Craig and Renton Kidd.
 

The next photo is the same as the one above with the color removed and cropped

The next lake tanker Invercaibo was taken out of service as a lake tanker and converted to a dredge to clear the bar that blocked the entrance to Lake Maracaibo.

On April 30, 1951 Invercaibo was taken out of service completely and she just faded away as outlined in the article below.

Invercaibo was built in 1925 and served on the lake tanker fleet until 1938 when she was sent to Newport News, Virginia and converted to a dredge.  She worked as a dredge until 1951 when she was taken out of service.  She served Lago for 26 years.

This is the picture of the ship cropped from the article in the Aruba Esso News, seen above.




Lake Tankers in Lake Maracaibo
I cropped the photo above so you could better see the group of Lake Tankers
Well, maybe not that much better

Lake Tankers "HOOIBERG" in San Nicholas Harbor

Lake Tankers "PEDERNALES" at sea

A shortened Pedernalas makes her way to Baltimore for a new mid-section.

Invergoil

Inverlago
I found the above drawing of the Inverlago in the book seen below.
The full page about the ship is shown below.  Some of this information does not correspond with what Arke Visser says about the ship on his web site: http://www.aukevisser.nl/  I am inclined to think that Arke is probably correct.

Punta Gorda

San Carlos

 
Looking forward from the aft to mid-ship, this also is an unidentified Lake Tanker

 
Invercaibo

Tia Juana, with her bow pushed in.

 
Unidentified Lake Tanker

 
Unidentified Lake Tanker

Lake Tankers tied up at pier in Venezuela

Name of this Lake Tanker is not known.  I know the photograph was taken from the "TRUJILLO"

Walt Spitzer on bridge of Trujillo & looking aft on the Trujillo
From the bridge of Trujillo & looking aft

Unknown?  This photo was taken by Paul Jensen probably in the very early 1930's.

 
Great shot of the Pedernales sent in by Renton Kidd

Another great shot, this is the Yamanota also sent in by Renton Kidd

It seems that some enterprising photographer would sit in this location and photograph ships as they entered Havana Harbor in Cuba.  Then he would go home, process the photo and then sell the prints to the officer s and crew of the ships he had photographed.  These are two examples of his handy work.  One is the Bachaquero and the other is the Inverlago.  Both Lake Tankers, although of a slightly different design.
THE ESSO BACHAQUETRO
This view of the  entering Havana was sent in by Bryan McCall.
The second photo is one I cropped from the first photo.  This was done to show a better view of the  Lake Tanker "BACHAQUERO".
These photos below were sent in by Sonya A. Brittingham, Class of '53 and her father, Captain Ernest Armstrong is the Captain.
This first photo is also one I cropped and tried to clean up but it is not as good as the original, below.
It seems the photographer liked to get the ship as well as the fort in the photo.  This seems to be the case in both ship photos before they were cropped.

THE END OF AN ERA
This is the story that appeared in the December 18, 1954 issue of the Aruba Esso News about the last of the Lake Tankers being fazed out.  From 1924 to 1954, 30 years, over 60 ships helped to supply the crude oil to the Lago refinery. 
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