I4 - climbing aboard an impounded oil tanker

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This tanker, impounded by the Australian navy, was carryng contraband oil. The vessel and its crew were to be towed to a holding area called the ‘sin-bin’. Teams from HMAS Newcastle sometimes ferried Iraqi judges to hearings aboard impounded boats.

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