Keystone Shipping Company

Key Lakes of Duluth, Minnesota is a subsidiary Keystone Shipping Company operating on the Great Lakes with 20 ships. Key Lakes operated tankers, dry bulk ships, tugboats, tank barges, and roll-on/roll-off ships.[5][6]

Keystone Shipping Company entered into a partnership with in the Alaska Tanker Company. Alaska Tanker Company founded in 1999. The other partners were: OSG America Operating Company of Tampa, Florida and BP Oil Shipping Company.[7][8][9] Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (NYSE: OSG), purchased all the shares of Alaska Tanker Company on March 12, 2020, and now is a subsidiary of Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. of Tampa.[10] Alaska Tanker Company transport of Alaskan crude oil with four 190,000 tons tankers. Alaska Tanker Company headquarters is in Beaverton, Oregon.[11]

• • Ships:[12]
• Alaska Legend
• Alaska Explorer
• Alaska Frontier
• Alaska Navigator

• • Some of Keystone Shipping Company ships:
• MV Cape Kennedy (T-AKR-5083)
• SS Denebola (T-AKR-289)
• RS RocketShip primary route is moving rocket parts of ULA Atlas V, Delta IV and Vulcan rockets Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg.
• SS Denebola (T-AKR-289)
• MV Cape Knox (T-AKR-5082)
• MV Cape Kennedy (T-AKR-5083)
• USNS Potomac (T-AO-181)
• MV Roger Blough
  • Some Past ships
• SS Chancellorsville T2 [13]
• SS Fredericksburg (1958) 1976–2004
• SS Murfreesboro T2 [13]
• SS Perryville T2 [13]
• SS Pueblo T2 [13]
• Birch Coulie [14]
• Oakley Wood [15]
• Henry C. Wallace [16]
• New Zealand Victory [17]
• David Holmes [18]
• Alan Seeger [19]
• Little Big Horn [20]
• Fort Capot River [21]
• MV Sea Isle City
• SS Bridgeton
• USS Saugatuck

Keystone Shipping Company was a major tanker operator during World War II. Keystone Shipping Company operated a fleet of tankers for the War Shipping Administration. Keystone Shipping Company operated Type T2 tankers and other tankers. Keystone Shipping Company operated for the war a fleet of over 60 tankers. Each Keystone Shipping Company had a merchant crew of about 9 officers and 39 men.

• Charles Kurz became the head of the War Shipping Administration (WSA) during World War II, in addition to operating ships.
  • Some ships operated for World War II:
• SS Santee [22]
  • Liberty ships:
• Christopher L. Sholes [23]
• Charles A. Wickliffe [24]
• Andrew A. Humpreys [19]
• Henry L. Ellsworth [16]
• Thomas F. Cunningham [25]
• David Holmes
• Oscar F. Barrett [15]
• Oscar S. Straus [15]
  • T2 Tankers
• Bennington [14]
• Bunker Hill [14]

• World War II United States Merchant Navy