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Name: O S C A 8
Type: Tank Barge
Launched: 29/10/1951
Completed: 12/1951
Builder: Clelands (Successors) Ltd
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 176
Dimensions: 110grt, 99nrt, 67.0 x 30.0 x 6.0ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: None
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 191850
History:
12/1951 Oil Storage Co of Apapa Ltd, Lagos
1954 Socony-Vacuum Oil Co (Nigeria) Ltd, Lagos; renamed PEGASUS 8
No later history known
Comments: One of an order for eight articulated barge units
Two of the units were fore sections with swim ends
Four of the units were mid sections
Two of the units were aft sections with rudders
This was an aft unit