Tanker Collection

Wallsend-on-Tyne - Shipbuilding and the BP Tanker British Hazel in dock. Date: 1963

Cargo ship Tresillian wrecked in storm, 1954
Cargo ship Tresillian of the Hain Steamship Co. (St Ives) lost on the night of 29th to 30th November 1954 in St Georges Channel near Ireland with heavy loss of life

Queens Dock, Swansea
Aerial view of the Queens Dock, Swansea, Wales. The Queens dock was opened in 1920 following the construction of oil handling/import facilities at the nearby BP oil refinery at Llandarcy

Terminal Building, Cork Airport, Republic of Ireland. circa 1970s

Oil Tankers of the Manchester Oil Refinery. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Boeing 707-344C VP-WGA (msn 20110) of Air Zimbabwe. After service with Air Zimbabwe, VP-WGA was acquired by the Israeli Defence Forces Air Force and converted to a tanker. Date: circa 1981

Oil Field, Humble, Texas nr Houston USA - Mule-pulled tanker. Date: 1907

Handley Page HP-80 Victor SR-2
RAF Handley Page Hp-80 Victor SR-2 V-Bomber and Avro Vulcan Parked at Upper Heyford Date: 1969

Douglas DC-7 N401US (msn 45145), a fire tanker of Butler Aviation Services, Date: circa 2005

RAF bomber with German tanker on fire below, WW2
RAF bomber with German tanker on fire below Date: circa 1941

Steel lung, Brompton Hospital
Steel Lung at the Brompton hospital in London. Also known as a tank ventilator, iron lung or Drinker tank, is a type of negative pressure ventilator; a mechanical respirator which encloses most of a

Grumman US-2B Tracker 136465
United States Navy - Grumman US-2B Tracker 136465 (msn 374, 1S753, base code 6M, call-sign 65, Model G-89 ), at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base for storage-disposal

Grumman S-2A Tracker 152820
United States Navy - Grumman S-2A Tracker 152820 (msn 289C, 1S0570, base code NH, call-sign 015, Model G-89 ), of VS-33, at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base for storage-disposal

Boeing B-17G Fortress N3703G - TANKER number 78
Boeing B-17G-85-DL Fortress N3703G - TANKER number 78 (msn, ex 44-83546), seen painted as 41-24485 Memphis Belle, for the movie of the same name. Date: circa 1970s

United States Air Force - Boeing NKC-135E Stratotanker 55-3135 (MSN 17251), an instrumented tanker during refuelling trials with an F-16, at Edwards Air Force Base on 3 April 2018

Aeronavale - Breguet Br1150 Atlantique 7 (msn 07) from 24F at the 1993 Royal International Air Tattoo - RAF Fairford 21 to 27 July 1993

Armee de l'Air - Transall C-160R 64-GQ (msn R217), of ET. 64, chasing the refuelling drogue from a C-160 tanker
Armee de l'Air - Transall C-160R 64-GQ (msn R217), of ET.64, chasing the refuelling drogue from a C-160 tanker. (Transall - TRANSport ALLianz / Armee de l'Air - French Air Force)

Douglas C-54Q N67034 - Tanker 150
Douglas C-54Q N67034 / Tanker 150 (msn 22202, ex USAF C-54D 43-17252, ex USN R5D-3 56548), in storage near Eloy, Arizona. Date: 1989

Boeing 707-3W6C CN-ANR
Moroccan Government - Boeing 707-3W6C CN-ANR (msn 21956 - 941). Air-refuelling tanker owned by the Moroccan Government. Date: circa 1990

English Electric Canberra B. 2 WV787
Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment - English Electric Canberra B.2 WV787 (msn 71644), water-spray tanker for icing tests

Consolidated PB4Y-2G Privateer 66260
United States Coast Guard - Consolidated PB4Y-2G Privateer 66260. (Later used as a tanker with number 123). Date: circa 1946

Athina-B aground on Brighton Beach - January, 1980. 1980

The Thames Barrier Date: circa early 1980s

War Master HMOT 282 oil tanker and crew at Harwich, WW1
War Master HMOT 282 oil tanker with officers and crew at Harwich. Date: circa 1918

Panavia Tornado GR. 1 ZA405
Royal Air Force - Panavia Tornado GR.1 ZA405 Y, of No.2 (AC) Squadron, in formation with an RAF VC10 tanker. Date: circa 1990

Boeing B-17G Fortress N3703G TANKER number 78 - Registered as N3703G, with Edgar A. Neely-Fast-Way Air Service, Long Beach, CA, September 11, 1959-1967.- Converted to fire tanker

Royal Air Force - Handley Page Victor K. 1A 8517M - XA932
Royal Air Force - Handley Page Victor K.1A 8517M (XA932) at RAF Marham as a ground instructional airframe. Built as a B.1A, to BK.1A when converted to tanker/bomber

United States Navy - Convair R3Y-2 Tradewind 13172 of VR-2 at Naval Air Station Alameda. Number 13172 was converted to a 4-hose refuelling tanker. Date: 1956

Volunteer Date: 1887

On the Mississippi, Loading Cotton Date: 1860

Gassing Up an Airplane Date: 1948

Upper and Lower Bay of New York

Handley Page HP-80 Victor K-1A
RAF Handley Page Hp-80 Victor K-1A Tanker V-Bomber Flypast in Formation with Two Ee Lightnings at the 1968 Farnborough Airshow Date: 1968

Handley Page HP-80 Victor K-2
RAF Handley Page Hp-80 Victor K-2 Tanker V-Bomber flying in formation with Two Ee Lightnings During Aerial-Refuelling Date: 1970s

Scenes from World War II
Seen from a German perspective. Torpedoing of a British tanker. Artist: Fritz Ahlers Date: 1940

RFA Birchol, British naval oil tanker, WW1
The British naval oiler (oil tanker) RFA (Royal Fleet Auxiliary) Birchol during the First World War. She was launched in June 1917, and served off the coast of northern Russia (Archangel) in 1919

Sea and Ships Pavilion, Festival of Britain site, London
View of the Sea and Ships Pavilion, part of the Festival of Britain site, South Bank, London, with models of sterns of different types of vessel, to illustrate British skill in shipbuilding

Early Vulcan Petrol Tanker supplying BP motor fuel. Date: circa 1919

RFA Prestol tanker
RFA (Royal Fleet Auxiliary) Prestol Belgol-class tanker and warship, with coastline (possibly Spain) in the background. Date: circa 1920s

Newlyn Cornwall 1939
Scene at the harbourside in Newlyn, Cornwall. Date: 1939

What we Want is W
WHAT WE WANT IS W................... It looks as if these sheep photographed near Kettering, Northants were beer drinkers but it really was just water in the tanker

Tanker Ohio with fuel for Malta by G. H. Davis
How the tanker Ohio delivered fuel to Malta during the Second World War, in the face of numerous enemy attacks. Date: 12-14 August 1942

Protecting crews from burning oil by G. H. Davis
Protecting the crews of tankers from burning oil during the Second World War. The new one-piece fireproof smocks, with other fire-resisting devices. Date: 1941

Petrol rations and oil tankers by G. H. Davis
Petrol rations and oil tankers: an analysis for car owners during the Second World War. A diagrammatic explanation setting out the relative basic petrol allowances for private cars for August

Refuelling aloft by G. H. Davis
Refuelling aloft -- a device which enables transatlantic flying boats to carry a much increased payload. How Imperial Airways transatlantic flying boats are refuelled in the air

New device for torpedoed tankers by G. H. Davis
Saved by compressed air: a new device for torpedoed tankers. How tankers holed by U-boat torpedoes during the Second World War can remain afloat by using compressed air. Date: 1943

New British fireproof lifeboat by G. H. Davis
The new British all-steel fireproof lifeboat designed for oil tankers. Its sprays form a constant shield of cold water over the boat, enabling it to negotiate a sea of blazing oil. Date: 1943

Handley Page Victor prototype tanker conversion

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