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cloudbase

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4. Those are pretty old ships.

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 12:47 PM

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They were originally San Clemente class tankers. I'm pretty sure that there are none of those class still operational in the commercial fleet.

Back in my merchant marine days I sailed aboard two of those, the Overseas Ohio and the Overseas Chicago. There was a slightly smaller class of tanker (Coronado Class) also built, but the engine rooms were the same across both classes.

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