He turned abruptly on his heel, intending to see how the survivors of the tanker were faring.
True, there was the business of the oil-tanker Bivalve as a set-off, but he wondered what his owners would think when they read of the case in the Shipping Gazette.
At that moment the tanker disappeared beneath the surface.
The vessel was the American-owned oil-tanker Bivalve of and from New York for Hull.
This was also the case with the crews of the Dutch ship Bloomersdijk and the Norwegian tanker Christian Knudsen.
The coming of thetanker terminal at Valdez and the pending development of oil and gas resources on the outer continental shelf threaten massive change for seabirds in the Gulf of Alaska.
This group is at least considering the transportation of these petroleum products to market in tankers, from an open-water port in the Chukchi Sea--thereby adding to the tanker traffic in northern waters.
Abstract Despite improved safety practices, engineering, and navigational skills, marine tanker transportation will not be 100% accident free.
In 1970 thetanker Delian Apollon was responsible for a spill in Tampa Bay, Florida.
Oil storage and ship-loading facilities at this port and heavy tankertraffic through Prince William Sound represent a pollution source that could result in significant seabird and waterfowl mortalities.
Construction of a gas liquefaction facility in Prince William Sound and tanker traffic through the Sound and the Gulf of Alaska are potential ramifications of an Alaska gas pipeline.
We cannot accurately assess the effect of a tanker terminal at Valdez or offshore oil activity without first developing some understanding of the current status of seabirds in the context of the historical record.
Certainly, development of gas liquefaction facilities in the Sound, with inherent increases in human populations and tanker traffic, would compound this potential problem.
There is every reason to believe that similar reductions in numbers could occur along the tanker route from Valdez to Puget Sound, with localized extirpation of colonies.
Tanker accidents and deliberate discharges from vessels remain the major threat to seabird populations.
The discovery of petroleum reserves on Alaska's North Slope and Canada's Mackenzie River Delta is common knowledge, and a pipeline has been constructed to transport Alaska oil to a tanker facility at Valdez in Prince William Sound.
The tanker at the back of the convoy and to the right was slipping behind.
For the time, at least, the tanker and its priceless cargo were saved.
The tanker reported a damaged rudder and a destroyer went to her aid.
A half hour later a tanker lagging behind was ordered to put on more steam.
It was a long way around to the tanker Vern was on, hopping from deck to deck, detouring around open stretches.
The tanker by whose side we had tied up began to swing toward me as the tide changed to outgoing.
I rounded the stern of the lasttanker between me and open water, and looked into the eye of a fire-breathing dragon.
The tanker was loose and ablaze, bearing down on me with the slow drift of the ebbing tide.
It became a question of getting the tanker to the Queen.
Surprisingly, though, he did find a tanker with a full load, the very next day.
It had to be a tanker with at least a fair portion of its cargo intact, because the Queen was a thirsty creature, drinking fuel not by the shot or gallon but by the ton.
Engdahl showed up with the oil tanker just about the time we got the wiring complete.
When daylight came, the big tanker presented a forlorn picture.
The tanker wallowed through giant seas, the spray sweeping over even the elevated bridge linking her bow and stern.
On the day of which we are speaking, however, there was one member of the ship’s company to whom the big tanker was as fine a craft as sailed the Seven Seas.
Like a blind man, the big tanker felt her way along, now starting forward and now almost stopping with an air of fright, as some fancied obstruction loomed in her path.
The power of eight thousand horses was driving the big tanker Ajax through the Lower Bay, out past Sandy Hook, and on to the North Atlantic.
There had been no impact as yet, but he did not know at what instant there might come a crashing blow that would tear the stout steel plates of the tanker open as if they had been so much cardboard.
Arguing in favor of Holmes, Senator Prescott Bush admitted that Holmes' tanker deals were improper and ill-advised, but claimed that Holmes was an innocent victim of sharp operators!
If there had been, a fellow couldn't be advertising her to the crew of an oil-tanker at high-noon, could he?
A tanker truck had maneuvered to refill a local gas station's underground tanks and a yellow pickup truck in the alley behind the station was heading straight for the truck at about fifty miles per hour.
Everything seemed well in hand, but an unanticipated wild card in the form of a blue Ford sedan entered the parking lot behind the tanker truck.
Well, boys, now I'm going to leave you," said Tanker Ike.
I heard Tanker Ike say he once saw a grizzly bear killed by it, so it must be pretty powerful.
Mexican Pete started back with the freight wagon, agreeing to come and get the camp stuff whenever word was sent to Tanker Ike or him.
I guess it would take a bigger cud than you could muster to satisfy a horse--or a mule," remarked Tanker Ike.
I've got a sister I want to visit before I go back to Pryor's Gap, and Mabel and I are going in one of Tanker Ike's wagons.
Finally they reached Fort Custer, found their camping outfit on hand, with their guns, tents and other necessaries, and there was Tanker Ike on hand to meet them.
I've got to send word to Tanker Ike to come and get our camp stuff, and he can just as well bring along an extra horse with him.
Jack replied as he hurried from the room to see if Tanker Ike had everything prepared.
The last of the water," announced Tanker Ike at dusk that evening, when they halted for a short meal.
You can only carry just so much," replied Tanker Ike.
Tanker Ike, giving one glance backward at his passengers.
It was at that moment that March was listening with pleasure to the explosion of the Kamongo’s torpedoes against the sides of a Jap tanker at Wake Island.
Tanker down—only the bow showing, oil-covered water blazing over the entire bay.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tanker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cruiser; freighter; ship; tanker; vessel
