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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 419, 30 July 1928, Page 2

- WORLD’S LARGEST TANKER. The i largest tanker in the world, the C. O. Stillman,” ran trials in February. She I was built for the Standard Oil Co. by 'the Bremer Vulkan yard and is 565 ft in (length, with a beam of 75ft 4in and a 1 depth of 44ft 6ln, the full deadweight j being carried on a draught of 31ft. The (hull builders constructed the engines, (which are of the M. A. X. two-stroke single-acting type. There are two (units, each of 2,150 b.h.p. when running at 90 r.p.m., designed to give the vessel la loaded speed of 11 knots. The engines have six cylinders, with a bore of TOO, i mm. and a piston stroke of 1,200 mm.