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  1. Giant Tanker

    Date released
    27 Feb 1961
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1656
    NoS ID
    024003
    Story no
    2 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Giant Tanker. DESCRIPTION: Sepia, at 65,000 tons, is certainly in the modern vogue for giant oil-tankers. With an overall length of 817 feet, she is the longest ship launched on...

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  2. Deepwater Disaster (2010)

    aka: Deepwater Disaster: The Untold Story

    Director
    Tristan Quinn
    Subject
    Engineering; Environmental science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    This programme reveals the untold story of the 87-day battle to kill the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout a mile beneath the waves, a crisis that became America’s worst environmental disaster. Engineers and...

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  3. Oil Rig Launched

    Date released
    4 Oct 1973
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2313A
    NoS ID
    030073
    Story no
    3 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil Rig Launched. DESCRIPTION: Marathon, successor to Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, launch their first giant oil rig. SHOTLIST: SV flag. GV new oil rig at Marathon Clyde Bank, Glasgow. SV...

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  4. Oil Rig

    Date released
    24 Feb 1967
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    67/103
    NoS ID
    112460
    Story no
    2 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip

    A new giant oil-rig, the "Gulf Tide" prepares to join the North Sea hunt for natural gas. Built at the John Brown yards, she will stand on four telescopic legs - each 363 feet long - high above the biggest...

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  5. The Firemaster

    Date released
    22 Feb 1960
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1603
    NoS ID
    023478
    Story no
    2 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Firemaster. DESCRIPTION: Our pictures show the Firemaster, the latest fire-fighting equipment, afloat in Swansea Harbour. A tripod, with decks, built on two pontoons, it is...

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  6. The Gulf Run

    Date released
    1951
    Series name
    Oil Review
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    349293
    Story no
    1 / 2

    NoS Summary - the S.S. Khuzistan delivers oil to small ports in the Persian Gulf BP synopsis: Starts with the dockside and a tanker next to a giant tank. The SS Khuzistan is a smaller tin holding vessle...

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  7. Oil Blast Rocks Town

    Date released
    13 Nov 1933
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    283
    NoS ID
    032940
    Story no
    3 / 5

    Three dead, score injured. 1 1/2 million gallon petrol explosion starts fire whose fumes and giant flames imperil whole of Tiverton.

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  8. Giant Tanker on Trail

    Date released
    13 Dec 1956
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1436A
    NoS ID
    021366
    Story no
    4 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Giant Tanker on Trial. DESCRIPTION: Launched at Barrow-in-Furness last August, the 47,000 ton oil tanker Evegenia Nicharos had just been carrying out her trials in the Firth of Clyde....

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  9. Bus Engine to Go Racing

    Date released
    16 Oct 1933
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    275
    NoS ID
    032893
    Story no
    3 / 6

    George Eyston on something new. Holder of midget-car honours explains giant racer, built to attack heavy-oil speed record.

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  10. A Strange Accident

    Date released
    26 May 1932
    Series name
    Pathe Super Gazette
    Issue no
    32/42
    NoS ID
    089915
    Story no
    5 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Not a soul injured when giant oil tanker, "British Commander", crashes into and cuts Egremont Floating Bridge like chess!

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