How true Teesships, fortunately the Customs were very alert in those days to spot that the pipe bore was machined a bit too smooth and precise for moving Oil, they did have other successes on the Import side with Pistols in Tranist from Eastern Europe for the IRA and the seizure of a Ton of Cannabis hidden in a bulk Guinness Flask which I witnessed on an Elder Dempster vessel along with a couple of Scousers
who turned up with a Truck to take the Flask to Liverpool where the vessel had been diverted from.