Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company was a major shipbuilding company in Chester, Pennsylvania with a large shipyard on the Delaware River. Originally built to supply tankers for the Sun oil company, it
A photo of the "Hammer-head" crane on the cover of the company's newsletter "Our Yard" in 1947.
SS Aquarama was built as Marine Star, one of five breakbulk cargo ships of the United States Maritime Commission type C4-S-B5 having that C4 design variant. The ship was delivered to the War Shipping
The Aquarama docked in Cleveland, 1956.
The SS Aquarama docked in Buffalo, New York (March 2007)