THE WORLD’S BIGGEST OCEAN-GOING TUG, the Alice Moran, which recently towed unaided an oildrilling rig 5000 miles from Hiroshima, Japan, to the coast of Victoria, Australia. The lower photograph shows the tug dwarfed by the rig, which weighs 8500 tons, near the end of the three-month journey. The tug is 211ft long and has a horse-power of 9600.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31226, 25 November 1966, Page 13
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58THE WORLD’S BIGGEST OCEAN-GOING TUG, the Alice Moran, which recently towed unaided an oildrilling rig 5000 miles from Hiroshima, Japan, to the coast of Victoria, Australia. The lower photograph shows the tug dwarfed by the rig, which weighs 8500 tons, near the end of the three-month journey. The tug is 211ft long and has a horse-power of 9600. Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31226, 25 November 1966, Page 13
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