Largest Oil Tanker

Series

Series Name

Pathe News

Issue

Issue No.

68/89

Date Released

3 Nov 1968

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Testing Caravans
2. 2Festival of Raghunath
3. 3Expo 70 Model
4. 4Pour on Floors
5. 5State Opening of Parliament
6. 6Largest Oil Tanker

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 6

Summary

The world’s biggest ship, the huge Universe Ireland, arrived from Kuwait at the end of her maiden voyage with 312,000 tons of crude oil on board. The tanker has set a new pattern in oil shipping by making its owners completely independent of the Suez Canal.

Keywords

Ships and boats

Locations

Bantry

Credits:

Camera

Martin Rolfe

Camera

Robert Monks

Camera

William Jordan

Length of story (in feet)

193

Story extras:

Film clip

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