oiler
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By contrast, logistics is pretty mundane; the big contractors don’t pine for contracts to build oiler ships, cranes, or commissaries.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
The memo calls for Navy Secretary John Phelan to select a new name for the fleet oiler.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2025
July 13, 2000: The Denver, an amphibious transport dock, and the Yukon, a replenishment oiler, collided during a refueling exercise west of Hawaii.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2017
Mr. Mabus has dedicated the TAO-205 oiler fleet to civil and human rights advocates.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 7, 2016
“Your Royal Highness—” “Do you oiler me freedom?”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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