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Because the catastrophes were clustered so closely, their drama was heightened. But they may be only a sample of things to come. The transportation of oil by sea has increased enormously in the years since World War II, and oil tankers, once a little-noticed breed of ship, now constitute...
In 1950 a tanker of 28,000 tons was considered so impressive that Britain's Princess Margaret formally launched it. By 1960, tankers of more than 100,000 tons were becoming commonplace. Now the supertankers make the 18,743-ton Argo Merchant seem like a skiff by comparison. Over 30...
Fortunately, major accidents involving tankers have been infrequent, but those that do occur are spectacular. The Liberian ship Torrey Canyon spilled over 30 million gal. of oil when it went aground off England's Cornwall coast in 1967. The Metula dumped about 16 million gal. of Persian Gulf crude when...
A former professor of zoology at the University of Washington, Dixy Ray, an admitted political neophyte, was a surprise winner of last September's Democratic primary. Ray, a small, chunky woman who lives with two dogs in a pre-fab home on an island, waged an energetic, 18-hour...
That is only one example of the kind of favor the maritime unions have been able to grab for themselves. In 1970 former President Richard Nixon signed the Merchant Marine Act, which provided federal subsidies for the construction of 300 new ships in U.S. yards within the next ten years...