Lake tanker

Lake tanker
An unidentified Lake tanker
General characteristics
TypeShallow-draft tanker ships
TonnageUp 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.