Those were the days when this country was once self sufficient in petroleum products with Barrow Island and the oil rigs in Bass Strait and we had our own merchant ships to carry it, I can remember such ships, Australian flagged and crewed: CELLANA, BP ENDEAVOUR, MOBIL AUSTRALIS, ESSO GIPPSLAND, AMANDA MILLER, R.W. MILLER, NANCY HEATH, P.J. ADAMS, JOHN HUNTER, EXPRESS, H.C. SLEIGH and SOLEN to name a few, all gone now, foreign ships doing the work and we pay for all this at the bowser!
Those were the days when this country was once self sufficient in petroleum products with Barrow Island and the oil rigs in Bass Strait and we had our own merchant ships to carry it, I can remember such ships, Australian flagged and crewed: CELLANA, BP ENDEAVOUR, MOBIL AUSTRALIS, ESSO GIPPSLAND, AMANDA MILLER, R.W. MILLER, NANCY HEATH, P.J. ADAMS, JOHN HUNTER, EXPRESS, H.C. SLEIGH and SOLEN to name a few, all gone now, foreign ships doing the work and we pay for all this at the bowser!
Worked there on a workover rig and great fishing on down time
Great video. Love the OHS in those days.
A family friend worked there through his welding school and business
Jim Davey
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