Members of the Cutler & Poling tanker fleet have appeared here at various times. Recently I had a good view of a fuel-laden Kristin Poling, shown here from bow to stern, all 281 feet of her.
This 73-year-old single-hulled tanker had a sibling vessel named Chester Poling that sank in a storm in 1977, becoming a haunt of Cape Ann divers.
I’d love a tour to see the living area and the linkage between the raised wheelhouse and the machinery.
Vintage of the pumps?
I’d love to see a photo of this or any part of the harbor showing Kristin Poling her 1934 habitat. Where could I locate fotos of her leaving the ways at United Drydocks/Staten Island as hull #824 aka Poughkeepsie Socony in August 1934?
How long until this single skinned matriarch retires? One more view below foreshortened. Why the 35-foot plus mast at the stern?
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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July 20, 2007 at 5:24 am
Daniel J Riley
I grew up in Eliot, Maine, across from Portsmouth, New Hampshire on the Piscataqua River. When I was a kid in the 1970’s, I used to see this tanker go past my house quite frequently. I believe at the time it was called the “Captain Sam” and had a red pilot house.
October 30, 2007 at 3:19 am
Bobby
If you want to see the “Pougkeepsie Socony” in her original configuration you should visit Auke Visser’s site. Click on “ships albums”. You will see her and her many sisters. In her Mobil life she was lengthened and her raised trunk deck was changed to a flush deck. Socony Mobil used her to run the NY state barge canal but that required her house to be lowered. She does not have this capability anymore and the house as you see it today just sits on steel stilts.. The pumps you see on her deck and from the 70s or 80s. As originally built her pumps were below deck in a pump room just fwd of the aft accomodations. As f