Supertanker, E. Hornsby Wasson off the coast of California, 1974
Item Overview
- Title
- Supertanker, E. Hornsby Wasson off the coast of California, 1974
- Photographer
- Rogers, Art
- Date Created
- April 30, 1974
- Date
- 1974-04-30
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Caption
- HUGE TANKER ARRIVES--The 1,068-foot supertanker E. Hornsby Wasson, 50 feet longer than the Queen Mary, lies off Santa Catalina Island following arrival with the largest load of oil--1,570,000 barrels--ever delivered to West Coast. Load will be pumped into smaller tankers for delivery to El Segundo and Richmond refineries. the Wasson was first ship to leave Saudi Arabia for U.S. after lifting of embargo.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 35 mm.
- Medium
- b&w negative
Keywords
- Genre
- news photographs
- Names
- E. Hornsby Wasson (Tanker)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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War
Transportation
Tankers--Great Britain
Energy Crisis, 1973-1974--United States
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclalat_1429_b732_277648A-1
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0002psx6
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- License
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