SS Torrey Canyon was an LR2 Suezmax class oil tanker with a cargo capacity of 118,285 long tons (120,183 t) of crude oil. She ran aground off the western coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom, on 18 March 1967, causing an environmental disaster. At that time she was the largest vessel ever to be wrecked.
SSTorreyCanyon was an LR2 Suezmax class oil tanker with a cargo capacity of 118,285 long tons (120,183 t) of crude oil. She ran aground off the western...
The TorreyCanyon oil spill was one of the world's most serious oil spills. The supertanker SSTorreyCanyon ran aground on rocks off the south-west coast...
were part of the group that bombed and set on fire the supertanker SSTorreyCanyon aground and leaking crude oil on Seven Sisters rocks off Cornwall....
of several Cornish beaches after a giant oil spill from the tanker SSTorreyCanyon. The West Indies Act 1967, also known as the "Associated Statehood...
(equivalent to $499m in 2023). The site is visited by leisure divers. SSTorreyCanyon – nearby and similar oil spill disaster in 1967 MT Haven – formerly...
Discoverer Rena grounding and oil spill Spectacle Reef Light SS American Star SSTorreyCanyonSS Suevic Mazaheri, A., Montewka, J., Kujala, P., (2014), "Modeling...
The dropping of bombs and incendiary devices from aircraft on the SSTorreyCanyon wreck produced poor results; modern techniques would include pumping...
the Marshallese-flagged Deepwater Horizon, and the Liberian-flagged SSTorreyCanyon, MV Amoco Cadiz and MV Sea Empress), the most common environmental...
million gallons of chemicals were used in response to the supertanker SSTorreyCanyon oil spill in the United Kingdom in 1967. The incident harmed marine...
bombing operation to break up and release oil from the tanks of the SSTorreyCanyon which had run aground off the coast of Cornwall. Burke's Peerage "No...
during World War II SS Thesis – Steamship wrecked in 1889 in the Sound of Mull, Scotland. Now a recreational dive site. SSTorreyCanyon – Oil tanker wrecked...
operating Blackburn Buccaneer, as a base to attack and bomb the oil tanker SSTorreyCanyon from, whch had struck Pollard's Rock on West end of the Seven Stones...
and Rescue Service Newquay Cornwall Airport Fire and Rescue Service SSTorreyCanyon disaster, 18 March 1967 – This incident saw possibly the largest fire...
steamship that was scuttled after catching fire in the Carrick Roads. SSTorreyCanyon Liberia 18 March 1967 A supertanker wrecked on Seven Stones reef....
Tokai Maru – Japanese passenger-cargo ship sunk in Apra Harbor, Guam SSTorreyCanyon – Oil tanker wrecked off the coast of Cornwall SAS Transvaal – Loch-class...
SS Kamloops was a Canadian lake freighter that was part of the fleet of Canada Steamship Lines from its launching in 1924 until it sank with all hands...
SS Andrea Doria (pronounced [anˈdrɛːa ˈdɔːrja]) was a luxury transatlantic ocean liner of the Italian Line (Società di navigazione Italia), put into service...
estimated two hundred shipwrecks overall. The most infamous is the TorreyCanyon in 1967, which was at that time the world's costliest shipping disaster...
SS Thistlegorm was a British cargo steamship that was built in North East England in 1940 and sunk by German bomber aircraft in the Red Sea in 1941. Her...
built and served in World War II as a VC2-S-AP3 type Victory cargo ship named SS Simmons Victory. Her keel was laid down on 23 February 1945, under a Maritime...
regions, causing oil spills. See Braer, Erika, Exxon Valdez, Prestige and TorreyCanyon for examples of tankers that have been involved in oil spills. Coastal...
USS Apogon (SS-308), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the apogons, a genus of cardinalfishes found in tropical and...
terrain, where it is not easily biodegraded. In 1967, the supertanker TorreyCanyon leaked oil onto the English coastline. Alkylphenol surfactants were...
The SS Hydrus was an American steel-hulled Great Lakes bulk freighter, constructed in 1903 and launched as the R.E. Schuck. She was following the SS James...
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