"kind in history to that date. Ploudalmézeau Ploudalmézeau () is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. The village and small port of Portsall is part of the commune. Portsall is known for the Amoco Cadiz oil spill. It is twinned with Cullompton, Devon. Inhabitants of Ploudalmézeau are called in French ""Ploudalméziens"". In 2008, 11.69% of primary-school children attended bilingual schools. On 16 March 1978, ""Amoco Cadiz"", a very large crude carrier (VLCC), owned by Amoco, split in two after running aground on Portsall Rocks, 5 km (3.1 mi) from the coast of Portsall, resulting in"
"milliseconds later than the first. That job successfully exposed the beams, so more charges were planted across the beams which were ultimately severed. With only her deck plates on the main deck holding the vessel together around the bridge structure of the vessel, two tugs at either end of the ship tried to pull the ship apart. On 20 July 2007 a third controlled explosion finally split the ship in two. In August 2007 the bow section of the ship's hull was taken to the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland for disposal and recycling. HM Coastguard placed"
"The tankers were serviced by four tugs, ""Bantry Bay"", ""Dingle Bay"", ""Brandon Bay"", ""Tralee Bay"". The terminal closed on 8 January 1979 when the ""Betelgeuse"" exploded, killing fifty people. Tourism catered to English visitors in bed and breakfast inns and premises such as Ballyrooster House. The renewal of the troubles in Northern Ireland and competition from Spain crimped the industry. Rossmore slate quarry was owned by a Liverpool Company in 1865 with exports to England, Scotland and France. The quarry ceased operations in 1917. The remains of the powder store and tool shed are still visible. Friendly Cove Slate Quarry"
"Island in Bantry Bay. The Total tanker was still not fitted with inert gas. The ""Energy Concentration"" did have this system, preventing an explosion when it broke in two on 21 July 1980 during discharge at Europoort. It has also saved many lives during the Tanker War. Washing with water in combination with the Load on Top system was replaced by crude oil washing (COW), a method developed by BP. The advantages were cleaner tanks, no corrosive sea water in cargo tanks and no polluted sea water being pumped overboard. On 10 October 1973 the Yom Kippur War begun, causing"
"Tanio oil spill The ""Tanio"" oil spill occurred March 7, 1980 when the ""Tanio,"" an oil tanker of Madagascan origin traveling from Wilhelmshaven to Civitavecchia split in two 60 km off the coast of Brittany, France in rough weather, spilling about 13,500 tons of cargo oil into the English Channel and killing 8 sailors. The stern section of the boat was towed to Le Havre by a British cargo ship despite the strong wind. The bow, however, sunk, leaking 5,000 tons of oil. After the spill, strong winds moved the oil toward the Breton coast. Oil began to wash a"
"that were common amongst tankers at that time - have been dealt with. A fleet of smaller, ""river-sized"" (several thousand tonnes) ore-bulk-oil carriers have also been used for some decades on European Russia's waterways, primarily by Volgotanker. In addition to MV ""Berge Istra"" and MV ""Berge Vanga"", one of the more famous OBOs was the Derbyshire MV ""Derbyshire"" of 180,000 deadweight tonnes, which in September 1980 became the largest British ship ever lost at sea. It sank in a Pacific typhoon while carrying a cargo of iron ore from Sept-Îles in Canada to Japan. The loss of ""Derbyshire"" was found"
"7,607 GRT . MV ""Fulham VIII"" and MV ""Fulham IX"" were sister ships launched in 1947 and 1948. They were motor ships, and at almost 1,750 GRT were considerably larger than the earlier coal-burners. ""Fulham I"" and ""Fulham III"" were scrapped in 1958, followed by ""Fulham IV"" and ""Fulham VI"" in 1959 and ""Fulham II"" in 1960. ""Fulham VIII"" was scrapped in 1969 but ""Fulham IX"" was sold in 1970 to new owners in Piraeus, Greece, who renamed her ""Eleistria II"". On 4 July 1978 she was damaged in a collision with the Cypriot coaster MV ""Lokma"" in the Gulf"
"On February 8, 1970 the tanker split into two sections. Both the stern and bow sections sank in an upright position and little damage was done to the storage tanks and cargo hold in the stern section. Of the ships 30 cargo tanks, only 9 tanks remained intact after the vessel sank, all of which were located in the stern section of the tanker. Salvage operations began in the end of February 1970 to pump all of the remaining Bunker C out of the tanks which remained intact. After deployments consisting of 22 days all together, all remaining Bunker C"
"loaded with oil. She was estimated to be worth approximately , with her cargo worth at least . ""Sirius Star"" was released on 9 January 2009 after payment of a US $3 million ransom. Three other VLCCs that have been ransomed by pirates are ""Samho Dream"", ""Maran Centaurus"" and ""Irene SL"". ""Sirius Star"" is a double-hulled oil tanker with a length overall of , a beam of , a hull depth of , and a draft of . She can carry of crude oil. She has a gross tonnage of 162,252 and a total cargo capacity of . Vessels of"
"MV Tricolor MV ""Tricolor"" was a 50,000 tonne Norwegian-flagged vehicle carrier built in 1987, notable for having been involved in three English Channel collisions within a fortnight. MV ""Tricolor"" was originally launched in 1987 as ""Nosac Sun"". At the time of her collision with ""Kariba"" she was operated by Wilh. Wilhelmsen. During the early hours of 14 December 2002, while traveling from Zeebrugge, Belgium to Southampton, U.K., with a load of nearly 3,000 automobiles, she collided with ""Kariba"", a 1982 Bahamian-flagged container ship. ""Kariba"" was able to continue on, but ""Tricolor"" sank where she was struck, some north of the"
"43. Carrying 2,658 troops, she sailed on 17 April and arrived at Gibraltar on 23 April. Her final destination was Bombay. On 26 August, while on the way from Antwerp to Rotterdam, she struck a mine in the Scheldt () and was beached at the Zuid-Steenbank. The ship broke in two on 6 September and was declared a total loss. MV Christiaan Huygens Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch ocean liner that was built in 1927 by the Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij for the Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland. She was employed on the Amsterdam – Batavia route until the outbreak of the Second"
"Museum at a cost of €50,000 and is on display in the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, as part of the ""Soldiers and Chiefs"" exhibition On 8 January 1979, 50 people were killed when a French oil tanker, the ""Betelgeuse"", was offloading at Whiddy Island when it caught fire, exploded, and broke into three pieces. The bay has had numerous shipwrecks over the years. In 1981, while cleanup efforts using sonar sweeps for the ""Betelgeuse"" were under way, the wreck of the French frigate ""La Surveillante"", which had been scuttled during a storm north of Whiddy Island on 2"
"""Norland"" were broken up at Alang, India in Summer 2010. MV Norstar Norstar was a P&O roll-on/roll-off ferry operating between Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England and Rotterdam Europoort, Netherlands and later on the Hull-Zeebrugge, Belgium line. The 27,000 gross ton ferry was built in 1974 by AG Weser, Bremerhaven for Dutch North Sea Ferries partners Noordzee Veerdiensten N.V. Sistership Norland sailed under British flag and Norstar under the Dutch flag with (mainly) Dutch crew. The ship transferred to P&O North Sea Ferries in 1996. On the UK side ferries needed to pass locks to berth"
"The discovery of the wreck occurred on 1 September 1985, at 25 kilometres from the position given of the sinking. The wreck lies about 4,000 metres deep, broken in two. The bow is relatively well preserved, but the stern partially imploded, and to a large extent disintegrated during the descent and impact on the seabed. The wreck of ""Britannic"" was discovered in 1975 by Jacques Cousteau. It has a large tear in the front caused by the bow hitting the ocean floor before the rest of the ship sank (the ship's length is greater than the depth of the water)."
"a painting of the ship in San Carlos Water. In 2002, the ""Norland"" was sold to SNAV as the ""SNAV Sicilia"" for service between Naples and Palermo. The ship was broken up in India in the summer of 2010. MV Norland The Norland was a P&O roll-on/roll-off ferry operating between Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire, UK, and Rotterdam Europoort, Netherlands, and then Zeebrugge, Belgium. The 27,000 tonne ferry was built in 1974 by AG Weser, Bremerhaven, for Dutch North Sea Ferries partners Noordzee Veerdiensten N.V. Sistership sailed under Dutch flag and ""Norland"" under British flag and with (mainly) British crew."
"trial. In the restricted waters of the dock basin the suction from ""Vulcan""′s propellers drew ""H41"" towards her and, despite the efforts of both crews to keep the two vessels apart, ""Vulcan""′s screws struck the stern of the submarine, cut through her outer casing, and sliced open her pressure hull. ""H41"" sank quickly, but her crew escaped. ""H41"" later was raised and sold for scrap. In February 1930, HMS ""Titania"" returned to England from a 10-year period based in Hong Kong and was ordered to relieve HMS ""Vulcan"" as depot ship of the Sixth Flotilla. Her arrival in England was"
"crew of the ""Meeching"" and that of another tug from Dover fought the fire, however there was another explosion during the night, prompting the decision to leave the vessel to burn herself out. The insurers of the ship declared her a constructive total loss. She was later sent to Spain for scrapping. Around 500 tonnes of bunker oil and ballast were released in the incident. MT Sitakund Sitakund was a Norwegian motor oil tanker owned by Tschudi & Eitzen was sailing from Wilhelmshaven to Libya on 20 October 1968, when three explosions occurred, one of which tore a large hole"
"debris. The cargo of 2,871 new cars – mostly from premium German and Swedish manufacturers including BMW, Volvo and SAAB – was removed from the wreck and recycled for the metal component. Most oil was removed from the ship's tanks soon after it sank, but during the salvage there was a 540-tonne oil spill, sparking concern. MV Tricolor MV ""Tricolor"" was a 50,000 tonne Norwegian-flagged vehicle carrier built in 1987, notable for having been involved in three English Channel collisions within a fortnight. MV ""Tricolor"" was originally launched in 1987 as ""Nosac Sun"". At the time of her collision with"
"Allcock. The song commemorates the wreck of ""Braer"", personifying the sea as the protector of the Shetland Islands. Shetlopedia.com has some very detailed information on the ""Braer"". MV Braer The MV ""Braer"" was an oil tanker which ran aground during a storm off Shetland, Scotland, in January 1993, and nearly a week later broke up during the most intense extratropical cyclone on record for the northern Atlantic Ocean, the Braer Storm of January 1993. During the enquiry after the ship's loss, it was stated that the ship lost power due to seawater contamination of the ship's heavy fuel oil on"
"1972 and the ""Venpet"" in January 1973. The vessels were completed in March and June 1973 respectively at the cost of approximately $28m each. Each vessel was more than 330,000 deadweight (DWT) which, at the time, classified them as Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs). The current classification for vessels over 300,000 DWT is Ultra Large Crude Carriers (ULCC). The ships met on the morning of 16 December 1977. The ""Venoil"" was en route to Nova Scotia from the Iranian oil terminal at Kharg Island with between 250,000 and 307,000 tonnes of crude oil. The ""Venpet"" was in ballast on a"
"second of a series of five Romanian supertankers that were constructed by the Constanța Shipyard in the 1980s. The sister ships were as follows: M/T ""Independenţa"" - collided in 1979 with a freighter at the southern entrance of Bosphorus, Turkey and exploded. She caught fire and grounded. Almost all of the tanker's crew members died. The wreck of the ""Independenţa"" burned for weeks causing heavy air and sea pollution in the Istanbul area and the Sea of Marmara. M/T ""Biruinţa"" - Owned and managed by the then Romanian state-owned shipping company, Navrom. In the 1990s the ship was passed to"
"were divided by transverse watertight bulkheads. While ""Lusitania"" also had transverse bulkheads, it also had longitudinal bulkheads running along the ship on each side, between the boiler and engine rooms and the coal bunkers on the outside of the vessel. The British commission that had investigated the sinking of ""Titanic"" in 1912 heard testimony on the flooding of coal bunkers lying outside longitudinal bulkheads. Being of considerable length, when flooded, these could increase the ship's list and ""make the lowering of the boats on the other side impracticable"" — and this was precisely what later happened with ""Lusitania"". The ship's"
"MV Derbyshire MV ""Derbyshire"" was an ore-bulk-oil combination carrier built in 1976 by Swan Hunter, as the last in the series of the ""Bridge""-class sextet. She was registered at Liverpool and owned by Bibby Line. She was lost on 9 September 1980 during Typhoon Orchid, south of Japan. All 42 crew members and two of their wives were killed in the sinking. At 91,655 gross register tons, she was—and remains—the largest British ship ever to have been lost at sea. ""Derbyshire"" was launched in late 1975 and entered service in June 1976, as the last ship of the ""Bridge""-class combination"
"the ship away from the coast failed due to harsh seas. The cargo was nearly 100,000 metric tonnes of coal loaded in Norfolk, Virginia as well as over 1000 tonnes of fuel-oil used for propulsion. On January 15, 1986 the hull broke in two during efforts to bring the ship afloat, therefore releasing a spill of diesel oil and coal ore. On February 23, 1986 the bow half of the hull was refloated, towed into the sea and scuttled in waters of 4000 metres in depth. Officials stated that no diesel oil was left in the bow section of the"
"a total loss. The wreck had been broken up in situ by June 1919. HMS Cochrane (1905) HMS ""Cochrane"" was a armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She served in the 2nd Cruiser Squadron during the First World War under Rear-Admiral Herbert Heath, taking part in the Battle of Jutland in 1916. She was based in Murmansk in mid-1918 during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. She became stranded in the River Mersey on 14 November 1918 and broke in two. The wreck was broken up in place by"
"a string of LORAN stations in Japan and Korea that assisted the United Nations forces. On 18 February 1952, during a severe ""nor'easter"" off the New England coast, the T2 tankers SS ""Fort Mercer"" and SS ""Pendleton"" broke in half. ""Pendleton"" was unable to make any distress call; she was discovered on the unusual shore radar with which the Chatham, Massachusetts, Lifeboat Station was equipped, during the search for ""Fort Mercer"". Boatswain's Mate First Class Bernard C. Webber, coxswain of Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat CG 36500 from Station Chatham, and his crew, consisting of Engineman Third Class Andrew Fitzgerald, Seaman"
"MV British Motorist (1924) MV ""British Motorist"" was a 6,891 ton tanker, built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1924 for the British Tanker Company. While under charter to the merchant navy, she was in port in Darwin, Australia when on 19 February 1942, she was hit by two bombs during the Japanese air raid on Darwin and was sunk, resting in of water. She had been carrying oil, aviation fuel and petrol and was refuelling when the raid commenced. Two of her crew were killed out of 61 in the initial attack: the master Gilbert"
"in March 2003), ""MV Farah III"" (in December 2006) and ""City of Liverpool"" (in January 2007). The MV ""Sik Yang"", a 2,818-ton Malaysian-flag cargo ship which sailed from Tuticorin, India on 25 May 1999, went missing in waters near Sri Lanka. The fate of the ship's crew of 15 is unknown. It was suspected that the vessel was hijacked by the LTTE to be used as a phantom vessel. Later, in 1999 it was confirmed that the vessel had been hijacked by the LTTE. Likewise, the crew of a Jordanian ship, ""MV Farah III"", that ran aground near LTTE-controlled territory"
"March 2014, Rijkswaterstaat awarded contract for the complete removal of the sunken car carrier to the Dutch company Royal Boskalis Westminster and its partner Mammoet. Once all remaining oil had been removed from the wreck, the vessel was cut into 8 separate pieces using a cutting wire and raised from the seabed. The same method was previously used in the salvage of MV ""Tricolor"", a car carrier that sank in the English Channel in 2002, and to remove the bow of the Russian submarine ""Kursk"" before the rest of the hull was raised. The recovery of the wreck was completed"
"MV Algonorth The Algonorth is a seawaymax lake freighter built in 1970 by the Govan Division of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd. in Govan, Scotland. Her original owners were Lambert Bros. Shipping Ltd., of London, England, where she was known as the ""Temple Bar"". In 1976 her new owners, Nipigon Transport Ltd., had her hull lengthened and installed a new power plant for Great Lakes service. The ""Algonorth"" crashed into a dock in Toledo Ohio on December 15, 2007, spilling over 3,500 barrels of diesel fuel. Nearby vessel the ""Amelia Desgagnes"" was wrenched from her moorings following the collision. The spill"
"MV Captayannis The Captayannis was a Greek sugar-carrying vessel that sank in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland in 1974. On the evening of 27 January 1974, a severe storm caused the vessel to drag her anchor while she was waiting at the Tail of the Bank to deliver sugar to the James Watt Dock in Greenock. Her captain ordered the engines to be started with the intention of running for the more sheltered waters of the Gareloch but before she could be brought to power she drifted onto the taut anchor chains of the BP tanker ""British Light"". The tanker"
"decision was made to cut the ship in two, salvaging the stern portion. Wijsmuller Salvage of the Netherlands were awarded the contract under Lloyd's Open Form rules. The ocean-going tugs ""Simson"" and ""Hector"" were despatched to Scotland. On 21 November, the operation to separate the two parts of the ship began. The sides were cut on 23 November, leaving just the bottom plates intact. Although all four tugs attempted to separate the two sections, they were unsuccessful. On 25 November, it was decided to use explosives to part the two sections of the ship. This was achieved on 27 November."
"Amoco Cadiz oil spill The oil tanker ""Amoco Cadiz"" ran aground on Portsall Rocks, from the coast of Brittany, France, on 16 March 1978, and ultimately split in three and sank, all together resulting in the largest oil spill of its kind in history to that date. NOAA estimates that the total oil spill amounted to 220,880 metric tonnes of oil. En route from the Persian Gulf to Rotterdam, Netherlands, via a scheduled stop at Lyme Bay, Great Britain, the ship encountered stormy weather with gale conditions and high seas while in the English Channel. At around 09:45, a heavy"