HOLLAND: WORK CONTINUES ON HUGE OIL TANKER.

Record ID: 344718

  • Title: HOLLAND: WORK CONTINUES ON HUGE OIL TANKER.
  • Date: 27th April 1968
  • Summary: 1. GTV VEROLME SHIPYARD. 0.05 2. CU SIGN: "OIL TANKER UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR ESSO". 0.08 3. CU DIRECTOR OF SHIPYARD - LEFT AND ESSO REPRESENTATIVE. 0.11 4. CU DIRECTOR. 0.12 5. GV SECTION OF KEEL SUSPENDED FROM CRANE. 0.16 6. GV CRANE. PAN TO KEEL SECTION. 0.27 7. LV & CU HOLE-DRIVING MACHINE IN OPERATION. 0.33 8. GV CRANE. PAN TO ANOTHER PART OF KEEL. 0.38 9. CU ENGINEER TEST SECURING WIRE. 0.40 10. LV GIANT CRANE UNDER CONSTRUCTION. 0.46 11. SV TILT DOWN DITTO. 0.54 12. CU FACE OF CRANE. 0.56 13. GV SHIPYARD. (2 SHOTS) 1.08 Initials JP/V/BOB/SC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 12th May 1968 13:00
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  • Location: ROTTERDAM, HOLLAND
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Reuters ID: LVABGF3AMZUAJ3TXPHTJJ6J2R3LM
  • Story Text: WORK ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 255-THOUSAND TON OIL TANKER AT THE VEROLME SHIPYARD, ROTTERDAM, IS CONTINUING. THE KEEL OF THE GIANT TANKER WAS LAID YESTERDAY.

    THE TANKER, BEING BUILT FOR THE ESSO OIL COMPANY, WILL BE THE BIGGEST EVER COMPLETED ON A SLIPWAY. A HUGE 300 FOOT HIGH (90 METRES) CRANE, CAPABLE OF LIFTING A WEIGHT OF 800 TONS, IS ALSO BEING BUILT. THE COMPLETED SLIPWAY, WHICH WILL BE FINISHED IN AUGUST, WILL BE THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD. IT WILL BE ABLE TO HANDLE SHIPS OF UP TO 400-THOUSAND TONS. THE DIRECTOR OF THE SHIPYARD, MR. VEROLME, ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY THAT THE YARD HAS STARTED WORK ON A DRYDOCK WHICH WILL ALSO BE THE BIGGEST IN THE WORLD. IT WILL BE COMPLETED IN 15 MONTHS AND WILL BE 1-THOUSAND 800 FEET LONG (600 METRES).
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