In the early 1980s, while America was reeling from the chaos caused by the second major fabricated oil shortage in history, Tom Archer, climbed aboard the SS WESTERN SEA, the first and largest Ultra Large Crude Carrier in the American fleet. Displacing over 400,000 tons, she...
This book describes an American officer's six month term as navigator aboard the first American ultra large crude oil carrier which was designed, built and used along with at least sixty other ships and several storage facilities to create the second oil shortage in 1981. This...