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<STREET1>FIRST FLOOR, THE HAYWARD BUILDING
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt">As
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December&nbsp;17, 2008
</DIV>


<DIV align="right" style="font-size: 10pt">Registration No.&nbsp;333-138752
</DIV>


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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 6pt"><B>UNITED STATES<BR>
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 6pt"><B>POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO<BR>
FORM S-3</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT<BR>
UNDER<BR>
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 3pt"><B>ARLINGTON TANKERS LTD.</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</DIV>



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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>Bermuda</B>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>98-0460376</B></TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top">(State or other jurisdiction of <BR>
incorporation or organization)
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>First Floor, The Hayward Building<BR>
22 Bermudiana Road<BR>
Hamilton HM 11, Bermuda<BR>
(441)&nbsp;292-4456</B><BR>
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant&#146;s principal executive offices)
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 3pt"><B>Edward Terino<BR>
Chief Executive Officer, President<BR>
and Chief Financial Officer<BR>
Arlington Tankers Ltd.<BR>
First Floor, The Hayward Building<BR>
22 Bermudiana Road<BR>
Hamilton HM 11 Bermuda<BR>
(441)&nbsp;292-4456</B><BR>
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 3pt"><I>Copy to:</I>
</DIV>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><B>Stuart R. Nayman, Esq.</B><BR>
<B>Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP<BR>
399 Park Avenue<BR>
New York, New York 10022<BR>
Telephone: (212)&nbsp;230-8800</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<B>Approximate
date of commencement of proposed sale to public</B>: This
post-effective amendment deregisters those securities that remain
unsold hereunder as of the effective date hereof.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If the only securities being registered on this form are being offered pursuant to dividend or
interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. <FONT style="font-family: Wingdings">&#111;</FONT>
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If any of the securities being registered on this form are to be offered on a delayed or
continuous basis pursuant to Rule&nbsp;415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the
Securities Act, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest
reinvestment plans, check the following box. <FONT style="font-family: Wingdings">&#111;</FONT>
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If this form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule
462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act
registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same
offering. <FONT style="font-family: Wingdings">&#111;</FONT><U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U>
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities
Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the
earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. <FONT style="font-family: Wingdings">&#111;</FONT><U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If this form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a
post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission
pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box. <FONT style="font-family: Wingdings">&#168;</FONT>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If this form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to
General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of
securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box. <FONT style="font-family: Wingdings">&#168;</FONT>
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated
filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of &#147;large
accelerated filer,&#148; &#147;accelerated filer&#148; and &#147;smaller reporting company&#148; in Rule&nbsp;12b-2 of the
Exchange Act. (Check one):
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Large accelerated filer <FONT style="font-family: Wingdings">&#111;</FONT>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Accelerated filer <FONT style="font-family: Wingdings">&#254;</FONT>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Non-accelerated filer <FONT style="font-family: Wingdings">&#111;</FONT>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Smaller reporting company <FONT style="font-family: Wingdings">&#111;</FONT>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)</DIV>



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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>Deregistration of Securities</B>
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This Post-Effective Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to Form S-3 relates to the Registration Statement on Form
S-3 (File No.&nbsp;333-138752), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November&nbsp;16, 2006
(the &#147;Registration Statement&#148;) by Arlington Tankers Ltd., a Bermuda company (the &#147;Registrant&#148;). The
Registration Statement registered the sale of up to $150,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the
Registrant&#146;s common shares, preference shares, debt securities
and warrants (collectively, &#147;Securities&#148;).
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Registrant is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No.1 to the Registration Statement to
deregister the unsold Securities. On December&nbsp;16, 2008, pursuant to an Agreement and
Plan of Merger and Amalgamation dated as of August&nbsp;5, 2008, by and among the Registrant, General
Maritime Corporation, Galileo Holding Corporation, a subsidiary of General Maritime Corporation and
the Registrant, Archer Amalgamation Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Galileo Holding
Corporation and Galileo Merger Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Galileo Holding
Corporation, the Registrant amalgamated with Archer Amalgamation Limited and became a wholly owned
subsidiary of Galileo Holding Corporation (the
&#147;Combination&#148;). In connection with the Combination, the
Registrant is filing a certification
and notice of termination on Form&nbsp;15 with respect to the Registrant&#146;s shares of common stock, par
value $0.01 per share, its preference shares, par value $0.01 per share, its debt securities and
its warrants.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As
a result of the Combination, the offering pursuant to the Registration Statement has been terminated.
In accordance with undertakings made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from
registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the Securities which remain unsold at
the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby removes from
registration the Securities
registered but unsold under the Registration Statement.
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>SIGNATURES</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for
filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement
to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Weston,
State of Connecticut, on December&nbsp;16, 2008.
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    <TD colspan="3" align="left">ARLINGTON TANKERS LTD.<BR>
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ Edward Terino
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Edward Terino&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Financial Officer&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this post-effective
amendment registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on
the dates indicated.
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    <TD nowrap align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><B>Title</B></TD>
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    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Edward Terino
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Edward Terino</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Chief Executive Officer, President
and Chief Financial Officer<br>
(Principal Executive Officer and
Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">December 16, 2008</TD>
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Stephen O. Jaeger</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director and Chairman of the Board
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">December 16, 2008</TD>
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    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">*
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Dr. E. Grant Gibbons</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">December 16, 2008</TD>
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    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">*
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Michael K. Drayton</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director and Deputy Chairman
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">December 16, 2008</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Edward Terino</DIV></TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
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    <TD nowrap valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Attorney-in-fact for the Directors</DIV></TD>
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