The Golden Bough was a fictional supertanker owned and operated by the oil company, MetroTex. The vessel appeared in John Gardner's 1994 James Bond continuation novel, SeaFire.
History[]
The Golden Bough was an enormous supertanker that contained "thousands upon thousands" of gallons of oil and gasoline. A regular visitor to Puerto Rico, the vessel's predictability led to her being chosen as the target of a deliberate act of terrorism by entrepreneur (and secretly, Nazi), Sir Max Tarn. As part of a practical demonstration of a prototype automatic anti-oil pollution system (AAOPS), an old submarine would torpedo the tanker on its arrival at 8:00pm on 30th April 1994[1] - creating a natural disaster which the equipment would supposedly neutralize. Knowing that the AAOPS was incapable of preventing the catastrophe, British operative James Bond boarded and sabotaged the submarine with explosives before it could fire on the tanker. The vessel's fate is unknown.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 See John Gardner's timeline.