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11 photos tagged oiltanker, from 5 members of Flickr Commons.

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• ship
• tanker
• oil
• ships
• tankers
• petroleum
• shipyard
• sunshipbuilding
• men
• texas
• boats
• boatindustry
• shipindustry
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• texascompany
• texaco
• history
• chester
• pennsylvania
• sunshipbuildingdrydockcompany
• ssohio
• scuttled
• sunshipbuildinganddrydockcompany

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• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 6 photos
• The Library of Congress 2 photos
• SDASM Archives 1 photo
• State Library of Queensland 1 photo
• North East Museums 1 photo

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World Unicorn

from North East Museums

• 40 older comments, and then…
• optimal chicken said:

  I'd love to have seen this view.

• FrigateRN said:

  A very powerfull picture of how things used to be. I wonder what happened to all the skilled shipbuilders and their families?

• Dave Colthorpe said:

  The Tories threw them all on the Dole mate

• lazlo jamf said:

  very nice image.

• Darkroom Daze said:

  When I came to work in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1969, I saw the last days of scenes like this on Tyneside. The local people said that when the ships were being built, they sheltered the streets from the wind, and they noticed the difference when the ships were launched and moved away.

Life - Oil

from SMU Libraries Digital Collections

• kristavanichinnsamy said:

  Good work. nice image.

AL-29 HM Goodie Album Photo_00057

from SDASM Archives

• TVL1970 said:

  SS Herbert L. Pratt See: www.navsource.org/archives/12/172339.htm www.shipscribe.com/usnaux/ww1/ships/hl-pratt.htm