In years to come, warns veteran oil analyst Matthew Simmons, to keep up supply the world will need to build new rigs at a rate not seen since the "Liberty Ship" drive of World War II.

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Members of the ship will lay a wreath at the Fowey War Memorial on Remembrance Sunday in honour of the fallen.

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During World War II, these tracks linked thousands of shaven grunts and other instruments of war to the ports that would ship them out to the front lines.

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From that third country, Whitman said, the containers were loaded onto the SS Gopher State, a U.S.-owned crane ship normally used to haul equipment in and out of war zones.

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It brought down more aircraft than any other ship during the war but three bombs hit the Coventry and two of them exploded.

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The families of heroic sailors who died when their ship came under German attack in World War II have gathered to remember them 70 years on.

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Around 80% of the ship is original and it has what are thought to be the only surviving in-situ World War I turbines in the world.

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The ship, which is an official maritime war grave, is carefully protected by the local council, but hundreds of other vessels dotted round the UK coastline do not enjoy the same protection.

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