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OIL TANKER
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An oil tanker is a ship
designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products.
There are two basic types of oil tankers: crude tankers
and product tankers. Crude tankers move large quantities
of unrefined crude oil from its point of extraction to
refineries. Product tankers are designed to move refined
products from refineries to points near consuming
markets.
The modern oil tanker was
developed in the period from 1877 to 1885. The first
successful oil tanker was the Zoroaster which carried
its 246 metric tons of kerosene cargo in two iron tanks
joined by pipes. One tank was forward of the midships
engine room and the other was aft. The 184ft long ship
also featured a set of 21 vertical watertight
compartments for extra buoyancy. The Zoroaster design
was built small enough to sail from Sweden to
the Caspian.
In 1883, oil tanker design
took a large step forward. Working for the Nobel
company, British engineer Colonel Henry F. Swan designed
a set of three Nobel tankers. Instead of one or two
large holds, Swan's design used several holds which
spanned the width of the ship. These holds were further
subdivided into port and starboard sections by a
longitudinal bulkhead. Earlier designs suffered from
stability problems caused by the free surface effect,
where oil sloshing from side to side could cause a ship
to capsize. This approach of dividing the ship's storage
space into smaller tanks virtually eliminated
free-surface problems.
In 1886, Glückauf, another
design of Colonel Swan, became the first modern oil
tanker. It was the first dedicated steam-driven
ocean-going oil tanker in the world and was the first
ship in which oil could be pumped directly into the
vessel hull instead of being loaded in barrels. It was
also the first tanker with a horizontal bulkhead. The
ship was built in Britain, and was purchased by
the Standard Oil Company.
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Learn more about oil tankers here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_tanker
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