This Week in Petroleum History: March 9 – 15
March 9, 1930 – First Electrically Welded Vessel: Oil Tanker –
An oil tanker became the world’s first electrically welded commercial vessel when the Texas Company (later Texaco) tanker M/S Carolinian was completed in Charleston, South Carolina. The World War I shipbuilding boom had encouraged new electric welding technologies. Naval architect Richard Smith designed the Texas Company’s pioneering 226-ton vessel. (more…)
