Tanker Handbook for Deck Officers

Baptist, C: 1954 Brown Glasgow, hardcover with dust jacket, 69 pages, illustrated and folding-out of a tanker with compartment. Tanker Handbook for Deck Officers (1954 edition) explains the principles, equipment and procedures for loading, carrying and discharging oil cargoes on mid‑twentieth‑century tankers, with emphasis on safe handling and seamanship. It serves as a practical textbook for deck officers on traditional oil tankers, covering cargo gear, pumps, tank cleaning, ballasting and routine tanker operations in the pre‑modern regulatory era. In very good condition