Word: tankerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scouting units continued to harass enemy communications. A Japanese cruiser fired several shells into the port of Cebu, but the slight damage inflicted hardly made the effort worthwhile. Another Jap division was landed at Mindanao, south of Luzon. Somehow-the means were not disclosed-a 3,000-ton enemy tanker was sunk. Otherwise, all was quiet in the Philippines...
...tanker Gulftrade, out of Port Arthur, Tex. with a cargo of oil, ploughed through the heavy seas off Barnegat Light, some 60 miles from her destination, New York City. When the lookout reported several vessels in the vicinity, chubby, moon-faced Captain Torger Olsen imprudently ordered his darkened ship's lights turned on. Said he ruefully: "I saw we were up to Barnegat and I thought they shouldn't be able to get us any more. I made a mistake...
...Navy repaid in kind. In a single week (ending March 6), U.S. submarines in the western Pacific sank one big Jap destroyer, one large naval tanker; hit and "definitely put out of action" one Jap aircraft carrier, three cruisers. U.S. guns, torpedoes and bombs had sunk 138 Jap vessels to date, sunk or damaged 20 Japanese cruisers-almost half of Japan's known cruiser strength...
...there is in the Western Hemisphere aplenty: last year's production was 1,761,951,000 barrels, 78% of world production. But nearly 7,000 miles of water -a four months' round trip for a fast tanker -lie between San Francisco and Melbourne. India's port of Calcutta is 16,425 miles from San Francisco. It is 4,673 miles from New York to Archangel. And all these trips will require some convoying...
Last week the Navy Department's count of tankers lost in the western Atlantic since Dec. 7 reached 17, an average of six a month. Although tanker production during 1941 was only 15 ships, 1942-43 calls for 215 new vessels, an average of 18 a month. But even these promising figures could not overcome the chill fact that the onetime Allied trump card, oil, was no longer a trump. The submarines that smacked shells at the refineries of Aruba and California were probing for vital or gans, for these refineries produce high-octane aviation gasoline, of which...