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  2. Free surface effect - Wikipedia

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    A liquid hitting a wall in a container will cause sloshing. The free surface effect is a mechanism which can cause a watercraft to become unstable and capsize. [1]It refers to the tendency of liquids — and of unbound aggregates of small solid objects, like seeds, gravel, or crushed ore, whose behavior approximates that of liquids — to move in response to changes in the attitude of a craft ...

  3. Oil tanker - Wikipedia

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    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. List of largest ships by gross tonnage - Wikipedia

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    Tokyo Tanker [8] Globtik London: 238,207 Scrapped [9] FSO Asia: TI Class: Supertanker: 379 m (1,243 ft) 68 m (223 ft) 24.525 m (80.46 ft) 236,638 In service as FSO: Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering: Tankers International [10] FSO Africa: In service as FSO [11] CMA CGM Jacques Saadé: CMA CGM Jacques Saadé-class container ship ...

  5. Inerting system - Wikipedia

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    A small amount of fuel in the tank leaves pumps on the floor of the tank exposed to the air-fuel mixture, and an electric pump is a potential ignition source. The explosion of a Thai Airways International Boeing 737 in 2001 and a Philippine Airlines 737 in 1990 also occurred in tanks that had a small amount of residual fuel.

  6. Finland boards oil tanker suspected of causing internet ... - AOL

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    The Eagle S Panamax oil tanker crossed the Estlink 2 electricity cable at 1026 GMT on Wednesday, a Reuters review of MarineTraffic ship tracking data showed, identical to the time when Fingrid ...

  7. List of tankers - Wikipedia

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    Crude Oil Tanker United States: 319540 2010 OLYMPIC TROPHY Crude Oil Tanker Greece: 320159 2010 OLYMPIC LUCK Crude Oil Tanker Greece: 319106 2010 XING YE 9590058 Crude Oil Tanker China: 320557 2014 YONG LE 9623257 Crude Oil Tanker China: 320775 2014 YUAN FU WANG 9843314 Crude Oil Tanker China: 319668 2021 YUAN HUA YANG 9843297 Crude Oil Tanker ...

  8. Finnish court upholds seizure of oil tanker in undersea ...

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    HELSINKI (Reuters) -A Finnish court on Friday denied a request for the release of an oil tanker suspected by police of damaging an undersea power line and four telecommunications cables in the ...

  9. Russian tanker splits in storm, spilling oil into Kerch Strait

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    MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian oil tanker carrying thousands of tonnes of oil products split apart during a heavy storm on Sunday, spilling oil into the Kerch Strait, while another tanker was also in ...