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...Thursday, Jan 12, the little (643-ton) Swedish motor tanker Divina was plowing out of the Thames estuary, four miles from shore, between Red Sand Tower and the Shivering Sand banks. Second Mate Franz Leipelt, officer on watch, and a British pilot were on the bridge. At the helm, Swedish Able Seaman Herbert Tonning guided his ship at a cautious 10 knots through a calm, moonless night. From the bridge came a shouted order. Tonning spun the wheel, hard. He heard the crunch of steel on steel. Captain Karl Hammerberg, hunched over a pot of tea in the officers...
...down imports of foreign oil. Faced with that possibility, Alberta's producers have had to consider alternatives. One might be to pipe the oil from Regina to Port Arthur (see map). Another might be to carry oil to Duluth by pipeline under bond, then ship it by tanker to industrial cities in eastern Canada...
Policy Arbiter. For Sir William and Anglo-Iranian, trouble is always in the offing. World War II cost them 44 of their 93 ships; during the Palestine fighting, they lost control of the Haifa refinery. But Sir William speedily got the refinery back, and he has rebuilt the tanker fleet to 121 ships, greater than ever. Since the war he has helped Anglo-Iranian boost its crude-oil production from 16.8 million tons in 1945 to 28 million tons...
...Their Knees. Some of them had a pretty exciting time. The crew of the Sinclair Refining Co.'s 17,229-ton tanker Sinco spent three wild days keeping their vessel afloat after sea water accidentally flooded her hull and stopped her engines off the stormy Carolina capes. A tug finally towed the foundering vessel safely into Charleston, S.C., where the crew knelt thankfully on her deck-and shot craps until the cook got a hot meal together...
That meant that the remaining 32 Tudors were grounded except for overland freight hops, experimental work and gasoline tanker duties on the Berlin airlift. The Civil Aviation Parliamentary Secretary gave a stark but realistic reason for the exceptions: "Those that have crashed have disappeared under the sea and there is no story to tell. If one crashes on land, there can be an examination of what is left of the aircraft, and those skilled in these matters may find some reason for the failure...