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Shell tank truck from 1926 based on a Ford Model TT. During the First World War, Shell was the main supplier of fuel to the British Expeditionary Force. [30] It was also the sole supplier of aviation fuel and supplied 80 percent of the British Army's TNT. [30] It also volunteered all of its shipping to the British Admiralty. [30]
Crude Oil Tanker United Kingdom: 113968 2011 EAGLE HAMILTON 9426207 Crude Oil Tanker United Kingdom: 114022 2010 ECO BEL AIR: Top Ships Inc. 9794056: Crude Oil Tanker United States: 157286 2021 ECO BEVERLY HILLS: Top Ships Inc. Crude Oil Tanker United States: 157286 2019 ECO JOSHUA PARK: Top Ships Inc. Product and Chemical Tanker Fleet United ...
British Tanker Company Limited was the maritime transport arm of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, the forerunner of BP. Formed in 1915 with an initial fleet of seven oil tankers, the British Tanker Company became the BP Tanker Company in 1955.
Royal Fleet Auxiliary; Olwen (ex-Olynthus) A122 Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Tyneside: 11 July 1963 10 July 1964 12 July 1965 19 September 2000 Olna: A123 2 July 1964 28 July 1965 1 April 1966 24 September 2000 Olmeda (ex-Oleander) A124 Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear: 27 August 1963 10 July 1964 19 October 1965 January ...
In 1958 the tanker Methane Pioneer entered service, converted from a cargo ship for the sea transport of liquified natural gas (LNG), by a joint venture of Conoco and Union Stock Yards, funded by the British Gas Council, later joined by the Shell and renamed Conch International Methane. [1]
MV Macoma was one of nine Anglo Saxon Royal Dutch/Shell oil tankers converted to become a Merchant Aircraft Carrier (MAC ship). The group is sometimes collectively known as the Rapana Class. Macoma was launched on 31 December 1935 at Nederlandse Scheepsbouw Mij, Amsterdam as an oil tanker and entered service the following year.
Eagle Oil and Shipping Company was a United Kingdom merchant shipping company that operated oil tankers between the Gulf of Mexico and the UK. Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray founded it as the Eagle Oil Transport Company in 1912 and sold it to Royal Dutch Shell in 1919. It was renamed Eagle Oil and Shipping Company in about 1930, and ...
The most efficient way to approach the task of converting these was to select ships of similar design and, at the beginning of 1943, the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company, which had actively promoted the MAC ship concept, offered up its entire fleet of British-registered 'Triple Twelve' tankers (sometimes referred to as the Rapana class) for ...