Herbert E. Benson collection, 1944-1946.

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Herbert E. Benson collection, 1944-1946.

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Newspaper clippings, commemorative service announcements and publications, condolence letters, and a bound album. The bound album, entitled "The Launching of the S.S. Esso Portland at the Sun Ship Building & Dry Dock Company yards, Chester, Pennsylvania, February 24, 1944, sponsor: Mrs. Ernest Benson", contains photographs and pen and ink drawings of Portland scenes signed by W. Spencer Wright (1944).

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Maine Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7451976

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Esso Standard Oil Company

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Esso Portland (Tanker)

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Benson, Ernest H.

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Benson, Herbert E., -1944

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Wright, W. Spencer

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Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company

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The Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company constructed the deepwater automobile ferry Princess Anne in 1935-36 for the Virginia Ferry Corporation's run between Cape Charles and Little Creek, Va., across the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. It had the distinction of being the first fully "streamlined" ship, with exterior styling by industrial designer Raymond Loewy. The curved sheet metal surfaces were later removed as impractical. From the description of Plans of ferry Princess Anne, 1935-193...