Navy Super Tankers (Paperback)

The history of 14 different oilers is presented in this book. These ships are displayed in construction plan, photos of compartments in operation, crews doing their duty.
History of each ship covers birth to where they are moored today. The 6 newer Neosho Class Fleet Oilers were streamlined where the stack resembled a cruise ship. Catwalks did not exist, the cargo deck extended from port to starboard as one big open area for replenishment to be carried out on. The 8 older T3 type tankers were Jumboized (cut apart and lengthened) to accommodate the Navy's needs without building new ships.
Oilers usually go out to sea annually for a few months and visit several world ports. This is displayed in maps of the world's oceans, maps of 93 ports, photos taken of those ports by the crew or from the port's local web sites.
Real stories and histories about how things that have happened, either good or bad, one to four pages in length, are included.