Standard Oil Company of New York
This company, once part of the Rockefeller trust, was formed in 1911. It has since grown into a world wide producer and marketer of crude oil and refined petroleum products. In 1935 it opened a major oil terminal on Staten Island, New York, which became the nerve center of the firms substantial American-flag tanker fleet. It presently operates thirty seven large oil tankers massing more than 291,000 tons gross and 461,000 tons deadweight.
Sun Transport Company
The Sun Oil Company, this firms corporate parent, was organized in 1886 by Robert Pew, and entered the shipping of petroleum by sea in 1901. It established its own tanker fleet in 1916, and opened the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Chester, Pennsylvania that same year. The Chester shipyard has built all of the Sun Transport Companys vessels, which today number seventeen most of which are modern motorships. The fleet aggregates more than 157,000 tons gross and 251,000 tons deadweight.