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The new T2 tanker Schenectady broke in two at its dock due to brittle metal and bad welding The fractured USS Ponaganset (AO-86), at the General Ship and Iron Works, Boston, MA., 9 December 1947 The T2 tanker "Pendleton" bow in 1952 Crew from USCGC Yakutat pull in a life-raft carrying survivors from the bow section of SS Fort Mercer, the photo ...
Eagle S is a crude oil and oil products tanker with a deadweight tonnage of 74,035 tonnes (72,866 long tons) and 12 cargo tanks that have a combined volumetric capacity of 81,320 cubic metres (511,500 bbl) at 98% filling. The ship is 228.6 metres (750 ft 0 in) long, 32.3 metres (106 ft 0 in) wide, and has a displacement of 89,381 tonnes (87,969 ...
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 Oil Tanker United States: 320926 2014 OCEANS Crude Oil Tanker Greece: 320780 2011 OCEANIC FORTUNE 9424209 Crude Oil Tanker United States: 320054 2010 OLYMPIC TARGET Crude Oil Tanker Greece: 319861 2011 OLYMPIC TRUST Crude Oil Tanker United States: 319616 2010 OLYMPIC LEOPARD Crude Oil Tanker Greece: 319368 2011 OLYMPIC LION 9445459 Crude ...
Commercial crude oil supertanker AbQaiq. 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.
All four oil tankers were constructed for shipping company Hellespont Group by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Okpo, South Korea, entering service between March 2002 and April 2003. The ships were originally named Hellespont Alhambra, Hellespont Fairfax, Hellespont Metropolis and Hellespont Tara.
Seawise Giant was damaged in 1988 during the Iran–Iraq War by an Iraqi Air Force attack while anchored off Larak Island, Iran on 14 May 1988 and carrying Iranian crude oil. The ship was struck by 2 Exocet missiles. Fires ignited aboard the ship and on oil that escaped into the surrounding water, which blazed out of control. [16]
SS Manhattan was an oil tanker constructed at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, that became the first commercial ship to cross the Northwest Passage in 1969. . Having been built as an ordinary tanker in 1962, she was refitted for ice navigation during this voyage with an icebreaker bow in 1968–