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Gotta admit, your screen name threw me off a few time at first... "What does this guy do, building ships, and calls himself "Tanker?"  Didn't cross my mind that you meant:

See, being an Army guy, "Tankers", to me, are automatically  these dirty, noisy, unshaven, and sometimes undisciplined clowns that run around, over and (usually) THROUGH the countryside breaking stuff and blowing up what they can't break while running over "Crunchies"... AKA "Clankers" (cuz of the tracks)  and DATs (DumbAzz Tankers), cuz they got little guns on top of and inside turrets that go "DAT-DAT-DAT" too...

Even though I used to be quite the model railroader, I never even THOUGHT about tank-cars, either...

 But I got ya figured out eventually, TB...

shrug

both are targets to me and my old cohorts

but, Scooters were targets to missile armed MiGs, and MiGs were targets to AAA gunners,,,,,and AAA gunners were targets to ,,,,,ohhhh, it's a circle,,,,I get it now

lol

My uncle was in the Navy during WW2 and he was on we were told an Oiler. Is that another way of saying Tanker?

Bill

Now that you mention it, i kinda always had the impression you were into tanks but ya,... people make assumptions and are often wrong that way

Richard

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My uncle was in the Navy during WW2 and he was on we were told an Oiler. Is that another way of saying Tanker?

 

Bill

I won't presume to know for sure, but I believe that during WW2, an Oiler was used for refueling other ships (and replenishing aviation fuel bunkers for the carriers) at sea while tankers were used to transport fuel and other POL (Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants) to ports for use by ground and air forces... 

no problem,I don't think ayone could misconstrue that as shouting 

You certainly are sharp . that,s it exactly. I do build container ships and such, but , my specialty runs to LIQUID cargoes. We had to have heaters and a heating system for every tank on board.WHY ? the black stuff would turn to a black smelly hard lump if we didn,t.Then there,s LNG and LPG tankships as well.Those are just ships designed to be built around the systems necessary to carry it from point A to point B under pressure. I thankfully never captained one of those.The only time I captained a container ship we got in one of those northwest storms off OREGON.We didn,t do as bad (six containers lost) as others and I was glad to be back in my BIG slabsided tank ships with their deep draft. There you have it.       TANKERbuilder

It's funny, I always see you in the Ship section (I rarely look in Armor) and always thought you meant ships.