Many times in the beginning of my career the old hands talked about the American (“Yankee-tank”) supertanker “Tobias”, the world’s largest Tanker. It was carrying elephant-snot from India… M/t TobiasTobias had such a long deck that it took one hour to walk from aft to fore and it had two starboard sides. The mooring lines were made out of Manila hemp and the diameter was at least one foot and the