Docking the ESSO Bridgeport at the Webber Oil Company's Ocean Terminal at Bucksport

Authors

WLBZ Radio

Files

Description

Irv Hunter, serving as the ESSO Reporter, describes the 1949 docking of the tanker ESSO Bridgeport, assisted by the tug Walter Ross, at the Webber Oil Company's ocean terminal in Bucksport, Maine. Hunter checks in with captains Harold Spurling and Merle Abbot.

Publication Date

11-19-1949

Keywords

oil industry, boats, tankers, transportation, Penobscot River, Bucksport, Hancock County, Maine

Disciplines

History | Radio

Collection Number

MS 608

Recording Number

D 16.3; CD 1 Track 4

Length of Audio Recording

15:14

Recommended Citation

WLBZ Radio, (November 19 1949) "Docking the ESSO Bridgeport at the Webber Oil Company's Ocean Terminal at Bucksport". WLBZ Radio Station Records. MS 608. D 16.3; CD 1 Track 4. Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/wlbz_station_records/58