On 15May2018 1454, Richard Aiken wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The naval treaties of the 20s and 30s were . . . terrible for UK's ship
>> builders, especially those specialising in large military vessels, as
>> demand dried up completely.
>>
>>
> Maybe they should have gotten into bed with Standard Oil and started
> building supertankers a few decades early?

Back then the middle oil fields were just about all under the UK's
control, so it'd have been British Petroleum. It's a nice idea, but
there wasn't the demand (or the facilities) for such big tankers back then.

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
Chief Assistant to the Assistant Chief