THE WORLD'S LARGEST TANKER, the 312,000-ton Universe Ireland, after she had been launched by Mrs John Lynch (right), wife of the Prime Minister of Ireland, at a shipyard at Yokohama, Japan. The ship, the first of six large tankers for long-term charter by the Gulf Oil Company, will carry 2.2 million barrels of crude oil on each trip from Kuwait to a storage terminal at Bantry Bay, Ireland.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31763, 21 August 1968, Page 13
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68THE WORLD'S LARGEST TANKER, the 312,000-ton Universe Ireland, after she had been launched by Mrs John Lynch (right), wife of the Prime Minister of Ireland, at a shipyard at Yokohama, Japan. The ship, the first of six large tankers for long-term charter by the Gulf Oil Company, will carry 2.2 million barrels of crude oil on each trip from Kuwait to a storage terminal at Bantry Bay, Ireland. Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31763, 21 August 1968, Page 13
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