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  2. List of United States Navy oilers - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of United States Navy oilers (hull designations AO, AOE, AOL, AOR and AOT). It does not include gasoline tankers (AOG) or submarine oilers (AOSS). Oilers are considered to be auxiliaries by the US Navy, and this article's lists are thus a subset of this type of ship. All other auxiliaries can be found at List of ...

  3. Oil tanker - Wikipedia

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    Rear house, full hull, midships pipeline. An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products. There are two basic types of oil tankers: crude tankers and product tankers. [3] Crude tankers move large quantities of unrefined crude oil from its point of extraction to refineries. [3]

  4. Tanker (ship) - Wikipedia

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    A tanker (or tank ship or tankship) is a ship designed to transport or store liquids or gases in bulk. Major types of tankship include the oil tanker (or petroleum tanker), the chemical tanker, cargo ships, and a gas carrier. Tankers also carry commodities such as vegetable oils, molasses and wine. In the United States Navy and Military Sealift ...

  5. List of tankers - Wikipedia

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    Varun Shipping Company Pvt Ltd [28] India. LPG Gas Carriers / LPG/C Maharshi Labhatreya, formerly LPG/C Hector[31] Moss Verft [32] LPG gas garrier. 1984 [32] sold to Mount Risho Investments for $12 mill for storage project in Africa [33] Former supertankers converted into Mercy class hospital ships.

  6. T2 tanker - Wikipedia

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    The T2 tanker Hat Creek in August 1943. The T2 tanker, or T2, was a class of oil tanker constructed and produced in large numbers in the United States during World War II. Only the T3 tankers were larger "navy oilers" of the period. Some 533 T2s were built between 1940 and the end of 1945. They were used to transport fuel oil, diesel fuel ...

  7. Scorpio Tankers - Wikipedia

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    Scorpio Tankers Inc. is a tanker shipping company founded by Emanuele A. Lauro on 1 July 2009. It is an international provider in the transportation of refined petroleum products. Scorpio Tankers is headquartered in Monaco and trades on the New York Stock Exchange. [ 1 ] The company has the most LR2 tankers exposure of the public companies.

  8. San Clemente-class oil tanker - Wikipedia

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    Capacity. 32,5000 Cu feet. Crew. 21 (Hospital ship 1,000) USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) The San Clemente-class oil tanker is a class of oil tankers built by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), San Diego. The size places them in the category of super tankers. They were built to serve the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.

  9. History of the oil tanker - Wikipedia

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    Andromeda made seven trips from Germany to North America as a sailing oil tanker. [11] The Falls of Clyde is the oldest surviving American tanker and the world's only surviving sail-driven oil tanker. [12] Nobel also began to adopt a single-hull design, where the ship's hull forms part of its tank structure. [10]