Print, Photograph

Photograph

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Lewis County Historical Museum

USS Neches/Navy fleet oil tanker 1949: Copyright: no; Origformat: Print-Photographic
USS Neches/Navy fleet oil tanker 1949

Copyright: no; Origformat: Print-Photographic

Name/Title

Print, Photograph

Entry/Object ID

P27731

Description

Newspaper article of USS Neches (one of the Navy's big tankers) going through the Ballard Locks in 1949. The fleet oiler Neches arrived Monday with government gasoline for storage at the Time Oil Company facilities, 2737 Commodore Way. At 19,593 displacement tons, the ship was one of the largest ever to pass through the locks at Ballard. From the Seattle Post Intelligencer Nov. 4, 1949

Collection

Al Brant Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Ballard Locks, Navy, Newspaper Articles, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Tanker, Time Oil Co.

Maintenance

Maintenance History

Date

Aug 11, 2021

Created By

[email protected]

Create Date

August 11, 2021

Updated By

[email protected]

Update Date

April 23, 2026