Eagle Oil Shipping Co

[PhilC]

Have you seen the book 'Eagle Fleet' by W. Lucas, published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson. It gives details of the 'San ships'. I borrowed it through my local public library who located a copy.

I first found reference to it in 'Pedestal' by Peter Smith which I bought in Malta. It gives details of the Ohio (nominally owned by Eagle Oil on behalf of Ministry of War Transport) and its role in the famous Operation Pedestal to relieve that island.

[George Walker]

I sailed on the San Vito,in 1953,as a junior engineer.
I sailed on the Cipriano in 1955 as 4th engineer
I loaned my presentation copy of all the ships.(Eagle Oil)
To one of the web site members but never had it returned.

[PhilC]

My father, George Carr was a mechanical engineer and worked from Eagle Oil's London office from the early 1940's to the final merger with Shell. He left me a small book about the saga of the San Demetrio.

[George Walker]

Hi.
You can return the book to my son who is the landlord of the arden inn on
abbey street.
thanks.

[Steve Redmond]

Hi. My father, Albert Redmond, from South Shields, served with Eagle Oil from 1948 to 1953 as an engineer on the San Adolfo and San Vito, before moving to Tyne Tees Steam and Navigation Company as Chief Engineer. He remembers trips to Trinidad, Valparaiso, Curacao, Rio, Montivideo and through the Panama Canal. He met my mother, Margaret (nee Alder - she was an English girl living in Holland with her mother and step-father, Arie Van der Meer)), while in dry dock in Feynoord, in Rotterdam in 1950 and they married in Rotterdam in 1953, before moving to South Shields to live. He remembrs old ship mates - Norman Willis (3rd Engineer), Donald Hodges, Chief Engineer, a Mr ? Taylor (2nd Engineer) Mr ? Humphreys. Donald Hodges approved of my mother and told my father to marry her - he did what his Chief Engineer told him! He can remember sunbathing on the after deck on San Adolfo! Happy days!

[staceyvandijk]

hey,
I think this post is old and may not not be seen nor relevant, but i just found out my grandfather sailed on San Vito in 1947. I dont know much more than that but we have letters and a diary from his days on there.