Built for the carriage of lubricating oil and other refined products in a highly automated cargo system, with fuel lines connecting independently to tanks. Twelve grades of oil could be carried.
Between 1962 and 1964 a number of 60-foot steel pontoons were built at North Woolwich for work in yachting and boating centres around the British coast. They were really Esso floating service stations, with a capacity for 5,000 gallons of diesel oil, petrol and two-stroke mixture. For the convenience of yachtsmen they were also able to offer fresh water, marine stores and some consumable stores.
