Word: tanker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every major nation has adopted an international maritime convention jettisoning that once common rule as unfair. Partly because cargo interests were worried about other aspects of the convention, the U.S. Senate never acted, and U.S. courts for the most part have reluctantly followed precedent. For example, when the Navy tanker Mission San Francisco was rammed by the Liberian freighter S.S. Elna II, a circuit court of appeals decided that the San Francisco's "faults were grave," but "with regret" divided the $3.8 million damages...
Egregious Fault. Last week the Supreme Court was reviewing the case of the Mary A. Whalen, a coastal tanker that went aground in 1968 in gale force winds on a sandbar outside New York harbor. A flashing light maintained by the Coast Guard was not working that night, but the trial court concluded that "the fault of the vessel was more egregious than the fault of the Coast Guard." The blame, ruled that court, was 75%-25%. Yet the damages had to be split evenly. After considering those facts, Justice Potter Stewart, a World War II naval officer, weighed...
...rescue operation had been delayed as long as possible-too long, in the view of many Pentagon officials. In recent weeks 44 U.S. naval vessels, 6,000 Marines, 120 Air Force combat and tanker planes and 150 Navy planes had been moved into the area. But Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the U.S. ambassador in Saigon, Graham Martin, argued that the final withdrawal of the American community would probably set off a wave of panic in Saigon and hasten the fall of the South Vietnamese government...
Before dawn, the fuel tanker Marias had appeared out of nowhere, like a floating filling station, and the 80,000-ton carrier Forrestal danced into place alongside. The two ships cruised ahead, a scant 140 ft. apart, while the carrier took on engine and jet fuel from two suspended umbilical lines. Meanwhile, three destroyers with the law-firm-sounding names of Sampson, Barry and Miller took turns on the tanker's far side...
...ships was the basic aims of Okean 1975. They appeared to be varied. Judging from groupings of Soviet merchant and hydrographic ships off the Azores and Japan, convoy maneuvers were involved. But whether Russian warships were practicing convoy escort or postulating the convoys as U.S. fleets-or U.S. tanker convoys-would await the same sort of computer analysis that the Pentagon carried out in connection with the first Okean. Even without computers, however, it was obvious that the Soviets had also practiced air reconnaissance and antisubmarine warfare, using not only ships but land-based aircraft, including the intercontinental-range nuclear...