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I presume that the tank with water, after heating, is then closed so that the steam would not escape away.
When the hot tank is cooled rapidly, the steam that has expelled the air originally in the tank during heating, is being cooled down and condensed into water. The space occupied by the steam inside the tank becomes a partial vacuum and hence is of pressure much lower than atmospheric pressure. The atmospheric pressure outside the tank thus exerts a thrust onto the surface of the tank and eventually makes it to collapse.