Word: tankerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cargill had time for one more ship experiment, the 12,500-ton tanker, Victoria, which was completed in the Albany yard in 1941, sold to Argentina in time to become the first Argentine ship torpedoed in World War II. The Victoria did not sink. She was torpedoed in what was thought to be the engine room, just under the stack, but the stack was a phony. The engine room was somewhere else...
Hung with the show were passages from Elisofon letters. Sample: "I went on two bombing missions. The first was a sweep on the lookout for Axis shipping. ... I got into a Mitchell's nose. . . . We fan across some shipping. The tankers were escorted by two Axis destroyers. ... I was so petrified by seeing the flak coming up towards us ... that I made practically no pictures over the target. I have no shots of the destroyers or the flak. It was all I could do to get the single shot of the tanker through the nose of the plane...
...absorb most of the land & sea transport business after the war. OWI argued sensibly that the more planes there are the more ships, trucks and railroad cars will be needed to fuel and supply them. According to Civil Aeronautics Administrator Charles I. Stanton, more than two 10,000-ton tanker loads of gasoline would be needed to refuel enough Clipper trips from New York to England to carry the cargo that one 10,000-ton freighter could take across in a single voyage...
Voyage No. 1 is made by a tanker laden with high-test gas. While steaming through foggy weather the ship is torpedoed, and her flaming decks are abandoned just before she goes down. The survivors of a subsequent machine-gunning and ramming are picked up and taken to New York...
...national outdoor championships in New York City June 19-20, finally got him priority to cross the Atlantic by plane. But last week, on the eve of his scheduled departure, a Stockholm news despatch cryptically announced that Gunder Hägg had left for the U.S. on a Swedish tanker...