High Winds, Dust Hide U.S. Convoy Reported in Gulf
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MANAMA, Bahrain — High winds, gusting up to 25 m.p.h., created a dust haze that settled over the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, reducing visibility to half a mile and cloaking a convoy of U.S.-escorted Kuwaiti tankers reported to have entered the waterway, shipping executives said.
Officials of the Kuwait Oil Tanker Co., which operates the tankers sailing under the American flag, have denied reports by shipping sources that a new convoy of three tankers entered the gulf under the protection of four U.S. warships. The U.S. Navy does not report the movements of its ships.
The shipping executives, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the three-tanker convoy had passed through the 110-mile-long Strait of Hormuz and was off the United Arab Emirates at nightfall Monday.
The convoy included the 290,085-ton supertanker Middleton, the 81,283-ton Surf City and the 79,999-ton Chesapeake City, they said.
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