tanker• He had boxed in the Army before he had become a tanker.• A tankerban is only one of a package of measures which may be in place by the year 2000.• The Exxon Valdez was an oddity: one large oil company owned both tanker and oil, and employed the crew.• Last year was the worst for tankerspills since 1980.• It will be accompanied by five other warships, including destroyers and guidedmissilecruisers, and a fueltanker.• Meanwhile, the tankers did neutralsteers and were just blasting with their guns.• The water was supplied from an eight-wheeled tanker that had arrived in Heymouth only an hour before.