Texas Steamship Company Vessel

Joseph Francis Carvill, artist. Oil on canvas. 1917. Framed. Texas Steamship Co. vessel; possibly S.S. MAINE. Black hull and stack. Red deck houses and two masts are centrally placed in the picture. A full-rigged sailing vessel is in the left background. The steamship is flying two American flags, one from rear mast and one from bow. Sky is fair but cloudy. Moderate seas. Painted for the Colonial Club. Frame 32x62". This oil tanker was built in 1917 by the Bath yard of the Texas Steam Ship Co., the shipbuilding division of the Texas Oil Co. (TEXACO). This shipyard was the third yard in Maine to built steel ships. J. F. Carville was a talented amateur artist who did many marine oils with Bath-related subject matter. Employed by the Texas Oil Company, he worked in Bath at their local shipyard during World War I. Later he moved to Port Arthur, Texas.