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This week Idemitsu will preside over the launching of the world's biggest tanker, a 131,000-tonner, which he plans to use as a "floating pipeline" to import oil from the Middle East. His blushing daughter Junko will swing the champagne bottle, but since the huge ship is too bulky to slide down the ways, water will be let into its massive drydock until it is afloat. The new tanker's name is Nissho Maru, which means "Rising Sun," and at the launching there will be banzais all around...
...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...
...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...