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May 05, 1969 - Oil Transfers At Sea Begin Off Britain Holiday Beaches: The shell tankers Macoma, 207,000 tons, and Drups, 70,000 tons, linked off Torbay, Devon yesterday during the first massive transfer to crude oil from one vessel to another. Off the holiday beaches of Britain. Nearly 70,000 tons of oil is being transferred in an 18-houroperation ending this morning. The macoma has to unload part of her cargo at sea because no port serving a shell refinery has yet dredged a channel deep enough for the fully-laden tankers in the 200,000-ton class. Shell is buying or chartering 29 such ships. Oil transfers will take place twice a week outside British territorial waters until deep water facilities are ready in 1970 at Rotterdam, Le Havre, Gothenburg, and Fos, near Marseiulles, Areas elected for transfers are lyne Bay, the Suffolk coast north of Felixstowe, the Liverpool sid eof the Bay of - ZUMAk09