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Coffin Ship by Peter Tonkin (1991, Hardcover. library wear The giant supertanker VLCC Promtheus is carrying 250,000 tons of crude oil when her entire officer complement is killed in a bizarre accident. Long retired Richard Mariner, whose last command exploded under him, agrees to take over as Captain. But what he doesn't know is that his predecessors were involved in a gigantic fraud and that a time bomb is ticking away in the hold. Mariner and the men and women of his crew fight to bring the Prometheus to the safe haven of Europoort, only to find their greatest threat lying wait for them there.