Triple pipes and valves for discharging oil on deck of oil tanker British Workman

Maker
Unknown
Production date
28 Apr 1923
 Description
View of the deck of an oil tanker. The deck is steel. A hatch cover is closed by large butterfly nuts. A steel door in the bulkhead is open. Three large diameter flexible pipes are connected to large valves on the deck. Behind them is a ventilator cowl.
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Department
Photo
Maker
Production date
28 Apr 1923
Subject person
Subject place
Scottish Oils Jetty/Grangemouth Docks/Grangemouth area
Subject notes
The tanker is berthed at the Scottish Oils jetty at Grangemouth Docks. The British Workman was a steam powered tanker of 6994 tons built in 1922 for the British Tanker Company (BTC). She was torpedoed and sunk in 1942. BTC was founded in 1915 by Anglo-Iranian Oil, which became BP.
Accession number
P16800

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