River Thames: Culex

Taken on 5 August 2012 and uploaded on 6 March 2025.

 

Culex is an oil or "oil products" tanker, here sailing up the River Thames and passing Tilbury Docks.

 

Culex was built in 1968 at Appledore, Devon. It's had various names, variants on "Oilpress" followed by Culex: Culex is, apparently, a variety of mosquito. It's now a Lome Port, Togo.

 

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