Fuel carrier at sea

Usage examples of oiler.

Joseph Heives, then torpedoed but failed to sink oiler Winooski and destroyer Hambleton.

He glanced at Peery, waving his arms and running his words together as he fired them, machine-gun style, at the dumbfounded oiler.

Dolores Oiler, Margie Rhoadhouse, Patricia Rodgers, Susan Shackelford, Laurie Maxwell Tenney, and Alice Thuermer.

An oiler would pump across the thousands of gallons of fuel for the ship and her aircraft while helicopters would sling-load hundreds of pallets of bombs and food and the myriad of other items that kept a floating city like the Shilo able to carryout her tasks.

Navy command ship bristling with radar antennas and other navigation and communications gear--six huge oceangoing tugs, five supply ships, a submarine mother ship, two tenders, two oilers, a small troop transport to accommodate the personnel who would work aboard the iceberg, a seaplane tender that had been converted into a floating laboratory and informationprocessing station, and a helicopter carrier with twelve personnel choppers and three huge transports with sixbladed counterrotating props capable of lifting twenty-five tons.

The home of third class technicians, janitors, oilers and similar minor laborers.

That's most of the striking force of the Northern Fleet right there, and if they need oilers, they figure to be out for a while.

I covered the entire submerged length of the oiler twice, keeping close to the bilge keels on either side, examining every foot of the way with a powerful underwater flash.

To keep the hellish red1 of iron rust and the sinister blue of copper rust from invading, the squads of oilers were always on the move, with oil distilled from the catch.

It had hit Edmonton, and the main reason Conal noticed it was because the Oilers no longer showed up for their Canadian Hockey League dates.

Standing in a corner filled with flowers, Secretary of State Douglas Oates swapped war stories with Henry Kissinger, while the Super Bowl champion quarterback of the Houston Oilers stood in front of the fireplace and peered openly at the breasts of ABC news anchor Sandra Malone.

Tear up the tracks, build a Lubro or an Oiler stationary for each squatty fixed machine and service these automatic tube ejectors from a Central Supply, using as many self-motion helicopters as would be required.