BRITISH CONFIDENCE ?? tanker

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aukepalmhof
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BRITISH CONFIDENCE ?? tanker

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Nov 22, 2009 7:26 pm

The Time of 24 February 1967 gives as follows:
A dozen sheep were ceremonially slaughtered, the tanker BRITISH CONFIDENCE blasted a salute, and Libya's 76-year-old King Idris last week officially opened his country's newest oil port at Marsa Hariga, two miles from Tobruk. To mark the occasion, the desert monarch was handed a $5,000 gold key by Texas' Nelson Bunker Hunt, 40, second son of H. L. Hunt and half owner of the oil company that made the Marsa Hariga facilities possible. The other 50% interest is held by British Petroleum Co., and the firm is named — logically, if not lyrically— BP Bunker Hunt.
By Stanley Gibbons Collect Ships on Stamps is given she is the BRITISH CONFIDENCE (built 1965), but comparing the stamp with a photo of the ship given in Merchant Ships World Built 1965 page 40 she can not be the ship.
Accommodation block of the BRITISH CONFIDENCE is placed on the stern, while the stamp showed us a tanker with also a accommodation block In the amidship.
Most probably the tanker depict is a BP tanker but of a older type, but which is depict?
Lybia 1967 60m sg392, scott?
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