Brooklyn (tanker)

The 1,094-foot tanker Brooklyn of 225,000 deadweight tons was launched at Seatrain Shipbuilding Corp., Brooklyn, New York, as the largest ship in the United States merchant fleet. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1973, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.135-6.

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