Lake tanker
An unidentified Lake tanker | |
| General characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Type | Shallow-draft tanker ships |
| Tonnage | Up to 5,000 |
Lake tankers were small (up to 5,000 ton) specially designed shallow-draft tanker ships that carried the crude oil, pumped from beneath Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, to the three off-shore refineries located on the Dutch islands of Aruba and Curaçao.