The Moses was an oil tanker owned by the Swedish entrepreneur Ludvig Nobel , which was completed and commissioned in 1880. It is considered to be the world's first modern oil tanker that was designed as such from the start.
history
Since there was both a lack of wood in the Baku area and a lack of suitable coopers to produce sufficient oil barrels, Ludvig Nobel, who had been using a license to exploit the Baku Naptha springs since 1874, left the Motala Varv shipyard in Norrköping with a new type of tanker for oil transport construct the steamer Zoroaster as a liquid bulk cargo for inland traffic on the Caspian Sea . The initially installed cylindrical cistern tanks were later removed and the entire ship's space except for the double floor was used as a tank. After this technical step towards the construction of later modern oil tankers, larger replicas of the same principle followed with machinery further aft, the Nordenskjold and the Buddha .
Based on these plans, the Lindholmens Werft built the Moses , in whose front tank holds the double floor, which was still present, was left out and added to the tank room. Two tanks installed behind the three-quarters aft superstructures above the propeller shaft, however, continued to be designed as upright cylindrical cistern tanks. Nevertheless, the Moses for the first time combined all the essential properties of a single-hull tanker that were to endure for many decades.
Together with the previous designs, the Moses also formed the basis of the leading Swedish shipbuilding engineer at the Motala shipyard, S. Alquist, for the construction of one of the first two sea-going tankers, the Petrolea .
literature
Jochen Brennecke: Tanker: From the petroleum clipper to the super tanker . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1975, ISBN 3-7822-0066-7 .
