Rainer, Could it be that the fuel or fuels, that the Williamsburg was carrying may have caused her to sink differently than thatof other ships in the Atlantic; I've read everything from, fuel oil, diesel fuel, crude oil, special navy fuel dirty oil, when I was young, not too many years after my grandfather went down on the ship or lifeboat, my father told me it was carrying rocket
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Thank you Parmstrong, Even though I never knew my grandfather, from MV Esso Williamsburg, his leaving and eventual demise, although still a puzzle as to exactly how, caused reverberations through the generations. It is still a touchy subject for my father, because his father ran off. He learned of it while serving himself. Now I feel as though I owe it to him to find out what kind of person he
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