Word: tonner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LUXURY LINER to replace aging S.S. America will probably be constructed by Louis Wolfson's New York Shipbuilding Corp., which gave low bid of $112 million for the 53,000-tonner...
...tanker for Tidewater since 1954 and the second in the past month. Sixteen more are on order at cut-rate French and Japanese shipyards. The total tonnage for all 25 will be 1,234,530 d.w.t. For his flagship, Getty is now dickering to build a 130,000-tonner in France. Said Getty: "My competitors have been burdened with small tankers. I am determined to obsolete their fleets by building no tanker less than 46,500 tons...
Trailed by two French submarines, discreetly watched by cruising French aircraft, the rusty white 400-tonner with the chipped smokestack never had a chance. As she zigzagged into Algerian waters last week a French destroyer escort hove in sight, ordered her to heave to. Said the French commander, peeping under the hatches: "A floating arsenal." When the old vessel's contraband cargo was laid out on the quay at Mers-el-Kebir, the French army found sufficient mortars, machine guns, rifles and pistols to equip 3,000 guerrillas...
...European refineries, but have proved their economy as well: they can haul oil halfway around the world for 3? a gallon, less than the prewar cost. Reason: a 50,000-tonner carries few more crewmen than a 16,600 wartime T-2 tanker, gets more speed, thanks to better hull design, for every unit of horsepower...
...deal with the Government that gave U.S. shipyards a needed boost. In return for permission to transfer the repossessed ships to foreign flags, Niarchos paid an additional $8,579,500 in penalties and agreed to build and register three supertankers (two of 32,650 tons and one 46,000-tonner...