The Liparus oil tanker in this movie is a model of the real one owned by Royal Dutch Shell, which was constructed in 1975 and commissioned a year later as an L-class tanker. She could hold 275,000 to 315,000 tons of crude oil. Shell sold off the tanker in 1983, when it was renamed the "Paradise" and went through several owners. It was scrapped in China in 2003. A miniature tanker had to be built for this movie, even though one of Albert R. Broccoli's friends offered the production a real one. They had to turn the offer down as the insurance premiums on tankers were prohibitively expensive, clocking in at 50,000 pounds a day. The tanker model of the Liparus was sixty feet long, with the Stromberg shipping logo used in place of the Shell Oil Company livery (including the stern, where the "London" registry was painted over), powered by a Evinrude outboard motor.
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