What is "tankers"

Usage examples of "tankers".

They deployed Chinese Silkworm antiship missiles on the al-Faw peninsula and used them to shoot at oil tankers loading at Kuwaiti oil terminals, across the Persian Gulf.

It is believed that all of the Mirage F-lEQ5s that Iraq employed to bomb Iranian oil facilities and sink Iranian tankers during the Iran-Iraq War are in captivity in Iran.

Meanwhile, Kuwait had approached the United States about protecting its oil exports by reflagging its tankers under American colors, which would then be escorted by the U.

I was in truth quite interested in the stolen scotch and the tankers, but it was on an upper and minor level, not down where it mattered.

Two tankers stood in this space, receiving attention from men in brown overalls who from their manner already knew Charter was around on Sunday afternoon and gave Gerard and myself cursory incurious glances.

Outside, as Charter had said, there was a tall commercial-sized car wash, but he turned away from that and led us round to the side of the building to where the fleet of tankers nestled in line.

We could be shut down in five minutes then if the bank foreclosed on the tankers, which they will.

Anyway, each segment has its own particular key, to avoid mistakes with unloading, so the scotch tankers each have a bunch of nine valve keys.

In addition, Iran stepped up its attacks on Iraqi and GCC tankers in the Persian Gulf and began setting up Silkworm launch sites along the Strait of Hormuz.