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unusual facts about Tanker



2007 South Korea oil spill

There have been strong protests from the shipping world and demands for the crews release, including from organizations like the International Transport Workers’ Federation, International Group of P&I Clubs, BIMCO, International Chamber of Shipping / International Shipping Federation, International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners (INTERCARGO), International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (INTERTANKO) and the Hong Kong Shipowners' Association.

Abadan Crisis

In July 1952, the Royal Navy intercepted the Italian tanker Rose Mary and forced it into the British protectorate of Aden on the grounds that the ship's petroleum was stolen property.

Boghammar

Boghammars, in this sense, have been used by paramilitary forces to attack offshore oil platforms and civilian shipping, or even larger military vessels, most notably by Iran in the Tanker War.

CDF Aviation Management Program

In the mid-1970s, CAL FIRE found that the contractor-owned air tactical planes, mostly single-engine Cessna 182s and Cessna 210s, did not provide the airspeed and safety needed for the new air tanker program.

Cheonghae Unit

In January 2011, commandos in the Cheonghae Unit successfully executed a highly publicized rescue of a South Korean tanker, freeing crew members held hostage by Somali pirates.

Commonwealth Railways NC class

Australian National approached Steamtown to gauge availability of a number of tanker wagons that had been collected in Peterborough.

Crescent wing

It served with the Royal Air Force form many years, serving in a variety of roles besides bomber, including as an inflight refuelling tanker during the Falklands War.

Cyclone Rosita

Chevron Australia said a tanker due to arrive on 18 April was asked to delay its arrival till 22 April because of the cyclone.

David Lapsley

Towards the latter end of his career with St. Mirren, Lapsley was on a part-time contract whilst working through the week as a tanker driver for BP, and although he vowed to retire after the 1959 Scottish Cup, he did play one more match at the beginning of the following season when they beat Greenock Morton in the Renfrewshire Cup Final.

Economy of Kuwait

(KPC), an integrated international oil company, is the parent company of the government's operations in the petroleum sector, and includes Kuwait Oil Company, which produced oil and gas; Kuwait National Petroleum Co., refining and domestic sales; Petrochemical Industries Co., producing ammonia and urea; Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co., with several concessions in developing countries; Kuwait Oil Tanker Co.

Faza

The Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) have provided housing and thousands of items of emergency needs, including blankets, sanitation equipment, tanker loads of water etc., to some of those affected.

Fox Chase Rapid Transit Line

Five days later, on Saturday, January 2, 1982, another single RDC collided with an ARCO gasoline tanker truck at the Second Street Pike crossing next to Southampton Station.

General Maritime Corporation

General Maritime Corporation (OTCBB: GMRRQ) operates crude oil tankers, mostly in the Atlantic Ocean and in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Black, and North Seas.

George Robledo

His brother Ted had died nearly 20 years earlier, having fallen from an oil tanker into the sea off Dubai in December 1970, aged only 42.

German ship Doggerbank

In Japan, Doggerbank took aboard many of the survivors of the auxiliary cruiser Thor and the German tanker Uckermark, the former Altmark, which had been destroyed in an accident in Yokohama on 30 November 1942.

History of Adjara

On June 22, 1892 the "Markus", a huge tanker ship departed Batumi for Bangkok, Thailand, becoming the first oil tanker to transit the Suez Canal.

HMLA-167

HMLA-167 also escorted eleven "Earnest Will" oil tanker convoys as well as ten minesweeper transits during its deployment in the Persian Gulf.

Humanitarian situation during the Libyan Civil War

The ferry docked at the Misrata port on 2 April, and was escorted by twelve Turkish Air Force F-16 jets taking off from Bandırma and Dalaman, four tanker aircraft taking off from İncirlik, and the Turkish Navy frigate TCG Yıldırım.

Jakob Maersk oil spill

The Jakob Maersk was an oil tanker registered in Denmark that struck a sand bank on January 29, 1975 while entering the port of Leixões, Portugal, causing a major oil spill.

Jian Seng

The Jian Seng was an 80-metre tanker and ghost ship of unknown origin that was spotted drifting 180 km south-west of Weipa, Queensland in the Gulf of Carpentaria by an Australian Coastwatch aeroplane in 2006.

Jim Fiddes

After retiring from football in the 1950s he joined BP as a tanker driver at Grangemouth Refinery.

Joe Krebs

Another Emmy was for a horrific gasoline tanker crash on I-270 and the Capital Beltway.

Jubilee oil field

The tanker vessel Ohdoh was converted for the Jubilee field and christened the floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Kwame Nkrumah MV21.

Kenneth Wilfrid Bishop

On March 30, 1974, when a fuel tanker and freight truck collided and burst into flames at Vegreville, Alberta, Kenneth Bishop withstood severe burns to his body to save the life of a man who lay helpless in the midst of flames and explosions.

Lines Bros

The range of vehicles was designed to be complementary to a model railway set, and for instance included a Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, a Humber Super Snipe, a Routemaster bus, a Shell petrol tanker and a towtruck.

MacCabe

MV Empire MacCabe, an oil tanker converted to a merchant aircraft carrier.

Marex Spectron

It provides spreads and options on all tanker routes via an integrated screen that allows clients to co-mingle clearers from NOs, CME, ICE and LCH.Clearnet.

Merchant Marine Act of 1920

In order to conduct an emergency shipment of gasoline from Dutch Harbor, Alaska to Nome in January 2012, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano granted a waiver to the Russian ice class marine tanker Renda.

MT Haven

According to news items it is also alleged that the tanker was scrapped after being hit by an Exocet missile during the Iran–Iraq War and should not have been put back into operation.

MT Vector

On December 19, 1987, motor tanker MT Vector left Limay, Bataan, at about 8:00 p.m., en route to Masbate, loaded with 8,800 barrels of petroleum products shipped by petitioner Caltex.

New York State Route 149

The road was shut down for the accident, where the driver of the tanker was taken to Glens Falls Hospital.

Operation Black Buck

The news of the bombing raid was reported on the BBC World Service before either the Vulcan or the last tanker arrived at Ascension.

Prestige oil spill

By 2004, engineers had removed the oil still in the tanker by drilling small holes in the wreck, using remotely operated submersible vehicles (ROVs) like the one that originally explored the wreck of the RMS Titanic.

Queen Elizabeth II Dock

Subsequent increases in tanker size since the dock was built has meant that the largest tankers use the Tranmere Oil Terminal and at offshore berths at Anglesey in North Wales.

SAL 2027

Unit 2027 was destroyed in a collision with a gas tanker truck at Arcadia, Florida in 1956.

Schiehallion oilfield

Oil is exported primarily to the Sullom Voe Terminal by the dynamically positioned shuttle tanker Loch Rannoch delivered in August 1998, and operated by BP Shipping.

SiN Episodes

Areas that are featured in Emergence include the Freeport Docks, Sintek Supremacy Tower, and Radek's hidden drugs lab on board a beached, derelict oil tanker.

SS Automedon

Her survivors eventually reached Bordeaux, France, aboard the captured Norwegian tanker Storstad.

SS Georgia

Her new owners were the M.V. Dutch Tanker & Oil Company Ltd., of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.

SS Gulfamerica

After the initial torpedo strike, the commander of U-123, Kapitänleutnant Reinhard Hardegen, surfaced his boat to finish the stricken tanker.

SS Potrero del Llano

Since only ships of the Mexican Navy were permitted to display the Mexican flag with the eagle in the centre, the flag shown by the Potrero del Llano resembled the Italian one, and having decided that the tanker's position and course meant that she could not be Italian, Suhren decided to sink her.

SS William Rockefeller

SS William Rockefeller was a tanker ship built in 1921 and named after financier William Rockefeller.

The Passion of the Jew

The two take their money and eventually board a bus back to South Park, but Gibson chases after them in the tanker truck from Mad Max 2 while screaming "Qapla'!" and wearing face paint from Braveheart.

Transit Center at Manas

Support for the new aircraft came in the form of one Netherlands KDC-10 tanker, and several American KC-135s, which remain assigned to this day.

Virginia Chadwick

Following a potential crisis involving an oil tanker attempting to navigate through the Reef, Chadwick was appointed to a safety inquiry and so impressed the stakeholders she was then appointed to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) Advisory Committee.

Walchensee-class tanker

The Walchensee class tanker (Type 703) is a series of four small coastal tankers, built by Lindenau-Werft in Kiel for the German Navy to transport fuel and fresh water between depots and to units near coasts or in harbour.

Windfall: The Oil Crisis Game

Based upon queuing theory and released after the 1979 energy crisis, the game puts the player in the role of chief executive of Engulf Oil, setting gas prices and worker salaries, monitoring gas station lines, scheduling oil tanker arrivals, and negotiating oil prices with OPEC countries in a race against the clock to maximize profits.


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