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Ported to OBJ from the models created by Henrik Nielsen for Microsoft's Flight Simulator X (FSX). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

This particular tanker design was originally created as the Athenian class back in 1999 for the United States (U.S.) shipping industry under the Jones Act, which to oversimplify limits any goods of any kind that are shipped between U.S. ports to only be carried by ships that are built, owned, and operated by United States companies or citizens. The law was a protectionist one meant to bolster the United States shipping industry, but it has resulted in some unexpected twists in world shipping since it was first enacted. Athenian is small by modern tanker standards. It sits right at the top edge of the line between a traditional tanker and the next rung up, which is supertanker. It has an overall length of 183 meters (hence it being known as the 183m tanker in many sources), a beam of 27.4 meters, and displacing 35,900 tons standard. It was also a very sound design that did quite well in its time all things considered, and which was revised slightly to come up with the later Veteran class or MT-46 series tanker. The later Veteran has proven to be even more successful than its predecessor, with its builder Aker Philadelphia handling a steady stream of orders since its initial delivery of the first in 2007. By 2015 it had built and delivered 13 of them to both U.S. and foreign buyers (such as British Petroleum or BP), with more on order for building. Foreign buyers in particular found them very useful for transporting oil where no undersea petroleum pipelines exist, or where use of a supertanker was expensive overkill, or were supertanker port and handling facilities were lacking, or where passage was limited by the size and shape of the bodies of water to be crossed (i.e. not wide or deep enough or too twisting for a supertanker). Physically Veteran looks very much like its predecessor Athenian, having the same length of 183 meters but with a greater beam of 32.3 meters and an increased displacement of 46,000 tons standard, as well as having 14 storage tanks instead of the older Athenian's 12. For what it's worth, the later Veteran's rated storage capacity is 330,000 barrels of crude oil utilizing all 14 onboard storage tanks -- again, right at the top edge of a tanker proper, as opposed to a supertanker. Given the current volatility of the world oil market and the fact that world oil shippers are having to go to great lengths these days for shipping their products - including using expensive Jones Act tankers simply for offshore storage - it is a safe bet that the American-built older Athenian and newer Veteran class 183m tankers will be around for quite a while.

These are straight ports with no changes by me. Only one generic model is included; however, Mr. Nielsen made ten (10) custom textures for it, which I used to create the ten (10) differently textured models included in this pack.

This model can be used to depict both the older Athenian and later Veteran tanker classes. If you feel the need to differentiate, then narrow it just a tad for Athenian and widen it a tad for Veteran, in order to better reflect their 5 meter difference in beam (approximate).

These are not my models. All I did was to port the base 183m tanker model to OBJ and apply the textures accordingly. Please credit Henrik Nielsen as the creator of both the model and all of the included textures if you use these in any of your own 3D projects. You do not have to credit me for my part.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

NOTE - This is your 21st century analog to the MARCOM/MARAD Type T3 tanker of the World War II and Cold War eras. This is one of the biggest large tankers out there without crossing over into supertanker territory, and as you read above it's a very popular type for a Jones Act tanker. You might consider making this one of your standard large civilian/merchant tanker types in any early 21st century fantasy fleet stuff.

Description
Ported to OBJ from the models created by Henrik Nielsen for Microsoft's Flight Simulator X (FSX). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

This particular tanker design was originally created as the Athenian class back in 1999 for the United States (U.S.) shipping industry under the Jones Act, which to oversimplify limits any goods of any kind that are shipped between U.S. ports to only be carried by ships that are built, owned, and operated by United States companies or citizens. The law was a protectionist one meant to bolster the United States shipping industry, but it has resulted in some unexpected twists in world shipping since it was first enacted. Athenian is small by modern tanker standards. It sits right at the top edge of the line between a traditional tanker and the next rung up, which is supertanker. It has an overall length of 183 meters (hence it being known as the 183m tanker in many sources), a beam of 27.4 meters, and displacing 35,900 tons standard. It was also a very sound design that did quite well in its time all things considered, and which was revised slightly to come up with the later Veteran class or MT-46 series tanker. The later Veteran has proven to be even more successful than its predecessor, with its builder Aker Philadelphia handling a steady stream of orders since its initial delivery of the first in 2007. By 2015 it had built and delivered 13 of them to both U.S. and foreign buyers (such as British Petroleum or BP), with more on order for building. Foreign buyers in particular found them very useful for transporting oil where no undersea petroleum pipelines exist, or where use of a supertanker was expensive overkill, or were supertanker port and handling facilities were lacking, or where passage was limited by the size and shape of the bodies of water to be crossed (i.e. not wide or deep enough or too twisting for a supertanker). Physically Veteran looks very much like its predecessor Athenian, having the same length of 183 meters but with a greater beam of 32.3 meters and an increased displacement of 46,000 tons standard, as well as having 14 storage tanks instead of the older Athenian's 12. For what it's worth, the later Veteran's rated storage capacity is 330,000 barrels of crude oil utilizing all 14 onboard storage tanks -- again, right at the top edge of a tanker proper, as opposed to a supertanker. Given the current volatility of the world oil market and the fact that world oil shippers are having to go to great lengths these days for shipping their products - including using expensive Jones Act tankers simply for offshore storage - it is a safe bet that the American-built older Athenian and newer Veteran class 183m tankers will be around for quite a while.

These are straight ports with no changes by me. Only one generic model is included; however, Mr. Nielsen made ten (10) custom textures for it, which I used to create the ten (10) differently textured models included in this pack.

This model can be used to depict both the older Athenian and later Veteran tanker classes. If you feel the need to differentiate, then narrow it just a tad for Athenian and widen it a tad for Veteran, in order to better reflect their 5 meter difference in beam (approximate).

These are not my models. All I did was to port the base 183m tanker model to OBJ and apply the textures accordingly. Please credit Henrik Nielsen as the creator of both the model and all of the included textures if you use these in any of your own 3D projects. You do not have to credit me for my part.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

NOTE - This is your 21st century analog to the MARCOM/MARAD Type T3 tanker of the World War II and Cold War eras. This is one of the biggest large tankers out there without crossing over into supertanker territory, and as you read above it's a very popular type for a Jones Act tanker. You might consider making this one of your standard large civilian/merchant tanker types in any early 21st century fantasy fleet stuff.